3 Post; Response to Perfect Evidence

I, like Jess, volunteer with TTP and have gone to the two schools she mentions. It is clear that these impoverished students are not being presented with an equal chance at education. I however, did not see how the statistics Jess mentioned were signs of struggles. She mentions that the schools were 100% and 94% black, however, I fail to see how that is a struggle for a student. While I strongly disagree with segregated school systems, I fail to see how it is a struggle to go to a school with such a population. Another thing she mentions, was that a high % of the students were eligible for the free/reduced lunch program. While this indicates the students come from a low-income household, I am not sure anybody who reads it will be able to automatically deduct that this is a struggle. Yes, they are being cheated out of an "equal" education, but we need to carefully analyze what each set of statistics means. A segregated community does not neccessarrily mean a struggle, but rather an injustice. I just think we need to be careful in how we interpret data and present it in our papers. However, I strongly agree with Jess and have had similar experiences at TTP.