Topic from Savage Inequalities

Through out my reading of Savage Inequalities I have notice the lack of motivational teachers. In one of the schools in Chicago, before taking a nap, one of the teachers tells the students, “ You can talk. Just keep it down” (Kozol 64). I don’t understand how a teacher with an attitude toward teaching like this was hired. To me it seems like the school is just putting a random person in the class and labeling them as a teacher. In my opinion this has a negative affect on the students because most kids at a young age don’t understand that staying in school will help them tremendously throughout life and with teachers with this type of enthusiasm kids feel like they aren’t respected and they don’t want to go to school.