Education is an essential component of any society and is also defined by socioeconomic factors; thus, there is a wide-ranging disparity between rich and poor areas. With more financial resources in schools, one can attract better-qualified teachers and better tutorial facilities than a poorly endowed school that lacks adequate teaching resources and has limited stock. This leads to students from the privileged classes being provided quality education, thus promoting social inequality and excluding the population of disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Social class affects education because the rich can afford to pay for private schooling, tutors, and extracurricular activities. Students from poor backgrounds attend poorly equipped public schools and thus experience low performances. Such opportunities lead to long-term disadvantages for students in these kinds of schools in as much as they elongate the gap in the kind of jobs they would be securing and financial stability given the kind of schools they come from.
Urbanization influenced funding, infrastructure, and technology, which are all important in supporting education. Due to inadequacy of facilities, sobered access to quality teachers, and all more so modern facilities, rural school-going children have limited options when it comes to learning. Transportation issues and reduced enrollment in academic programs also increase the difficulty in attaining education, pushing rural students to the lowest level equal to urban students.
Policies and funding from the government also affect the quality of education because students in affluent areas tend to get better facilities and trained teachers than poor students. Lack of funding in low-income districts keeps education disparity inexistent. The lack of reforms in the perquisites of equity and distribution of resources means that weaker students have limited probabilities of success in their academic and career endeavors.
Education also has severe consequences in the workplace and social mobility concerns persisting in the long run. Education leads to quality employment and better pay while underprivileged children struggle with various barriers of equity. For these gaps to be closed, there needs to be a change in policy and an increase in investment and targeted approaches that can bring about the necessary equity in the poor-performing areas.
Conclusion
Education is a key sector where issues of social justice can be fought, and it cannot be overemphasized that equitable education equals an equitable society. The current society’s administration structure creates numerous barriers for low-income and rural students where appropriate reforms are still to be made. Governments have to continue providing more funds and changing their policies and procedures in a way that every learner, without any regard to their characteristics, would be able to get a good education and all the benefits that come with it.
