The topic sentence that grabbed my attention stated “Poorly funded public schools have poor teachers because they cannot attract young and ambitious educators due to low salaries”. This is a topic I have noticed and have become more familiar with in the past few years. Both my younger sisters attend a “choice” school where they were selected and random. These teachers are almost all fresh out of college and full of energy. They make sure to make strong bonds with their students and it even gets to the point where the students talk about their teachers as if they were friends. At the school I attended most teachers were around the age of 40, if not older. At first I didn’t understand why that was, but money influences many things. Jonathan Kozol takes note of this and explains that the salaries at these “choice” schools are significantly higher. Kozol notes the words of a principal at one of the lower public schools in the Chicago area. “Top Salary in a school, he says, is $40,000. ‘My faculty is aging. Average age is 47. Competing against the suburbs, where the salaries go up to $60,000, it is very, very hard to keep young teachers’” (Kozol 85). It might sound a little harsh, but if I was a brand new teacher I would go teach at the choice school that would pay me $60,000. Also knowing that because it is a choice school, the students may also be better and less troublesome. I think that the government should step in on this topic and maybe give grants to at least bring the gap a little closer.