A student can only receive the education that is handed in front of them. the major findings during this project is the article that states there is a “achievement gap” between the black students and white students. The impressions that I got from doing this project is that no one is going to stand up and make a difference if the students doesn’t realize there’s a problem. If we are being told nothing, how are we supposed to fight for something? How are we supposed to do anything to help us?

Other projects done we just looked up information and put it in essay form but for this the results differ because we had to go out and find the problem ourselves. Last year I did a paper on the Iraq war, and the war that is happening between the Sunni, shi’a, and Kurds. I couldn’t go to Iraq and ask the Sunni, why are they in war with the Kurds, and shi’a, I just got what the internet states, which might be the truth but you never know. But for this project I got to go to different schools and view on first hand basis the problems, the difference between suburban schools, and urban schools. I got to ask question and see if the suburban students felt the same way as most urban students and vice versa.

The study I did got me closer to understanding because it made the problem known. If you don’t know what’s going on how are you supposed to make a difference, how are you supposed to care? And once the problem is actually stated and not covered up so people won’t be so blind solutions start to come up. People starts to have idea to change or to help others see there is something wrong. Most students I ask to take this survey they asked why? So I asked them did they know there is an “achievement gap” between whites and blacks, in school. A couple of people responded like oh it’s a “race thing” it’s “always” going to be like that, and “it’s the white man keeping us down”. What they fail to realize is no it’s where we live, and where the most poverty appears, it’s where the most money comes from. And if you live where there is no money coming out of the area there is no resources for the schools.