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Lies My Teacher Told Me

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Poor people were treated very treated unequally in comparison to the rich. In the book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen writes about how poor people were offered education, but weren’t given an equal opportunity for higher education. Chapter 7 of Lies My Teacher Told Me notes that rich people were treated more fairly than the poor people, more specifically with more respect and honor especially in the classroom. “The policies of the Reagan and first Bush administrations, which openly favored the rich, abetted a secular trend already in motion, causing inequality to increase measurably between 1981 and 1992.” (Loewen, 215) The wealthy already had their advantage when they gained their wealth. The wealth they had helped greatly in the process

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