Savage Inequalities, written by Jonathan Kozol, shows his two-year investigation into the neighborhoods and schools of the privileged and disadvantaged. Kozol shows disparity in educational spending between suburban and urban schools. It also shows how this issue affects children who have few or no books at all and live in poor neighborhoods. Conclusions can be drawn about urban versus suburban schools and that would be entirely correct. The differences between quality education and different races are analyzed. Kozol even goes so far as to suggest that suburban schools make better use of their money because children's futures are more secure in a suburban environment. He thinks that every child should receive everything they need to be equal to everyone else. If Detroit children have greater needs than an Ann Arbor student, then Detroit students should receive a larger amount of money. My perception changed completely after reading this book, I never knew that so many schools were located in ghettos and were so overcrowded or only had two toilets that worked for about 1000 students and no toilet paper. What really shocks me is the fact that within the same city limits, there are schools located on the outskirts that average 20 per class and have enough supplies and computers for every child to get their own. Of course, most of these suburban schools are predominantly white, and urban schools are home to minorities. The dropout rates listed in the book are ridiculous. Most children drop out of secondary school and never receive a proper education due to lack of materials or lack of interest on the part of teachers. Most children are black or Hispanic in poor schools, while suburban schools contain upper-class white children and occasionally Asian or Japanese children in the more gifted classes. The small population of blacks and Hispanics who attend the schools are placed in "special" classes and their "mental retardations" can be blamed for their placement. Most of these students are not mental and belonged to a normal class between whites and Asians. Kozol argues that the system is separate and unequal and builds on his hypothesis until it becomes credible..