Affirmative action

the past week in political thought we have been learning about affirmative action and having an in class debate about it. affirmative action is when minorities are given special treatment to "level the playing field". while debating the topic discovered that this idea is very related to the class system here in America. as it is basically helping the lower class people have a chance of going to a collage with higher class kids. this concept of inner city kids not having the same resources as the more privileged children that go to a great school like Stevenson was difficult to understand. so i put it in a different perspective. i thought about it as upper class children going to private schools get a better education then the middle class kids going to private school as Stevenson. and when i put it that way it didn't seem so fair. but you have to realize that that is the social state that this country is in right now. while it may seem unfair or even mean to say that lower class children should not even have a chance to go to collage, it is the truth. but it is not always the case. even low class kids can have dreams of a better life. they an always have the hope of reaching that next rung on the ladder. and eventually through generation to generation they may finally become middle or even high class. while the system seems unfair this is the reality. and it works.