Final Service Learning Reflection #3

I think that the reading that connects to my experiences as a tutor is the book Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol. I think that this book connects to my experiences as a tutor because both the book and my experience both encompasses inequality in some way. For example, there is inequality in the public school system as expressed by Kozol, and in my experiences while tutoring I was able to see inequality in the sense that the students that came there were hindered to to their inability to speak english well. Thus, because of their deficiency, this affected communicating in their every day life. For example, communicating in the workplace, and this would effect applying for a job. Therefore, if they have a difficult time applying for a job then they are not able to provide for their family. Furthermore, I think that it is great that I was given the opportunity to tutor these students because learning the english language will help them to improve there language skills and will intern help them to get a job to provide for their family. Also, I think that it is important to be immersed into this culture because a person is able to see that their is a need and will then try and do what they can to change this.