Due to the shortage of proper funding, public schools are unable to afford young, energetic teachers, being left with older teachers who lack motivation to teach.  This factor can be extremely dangerous towards a student’s learning environment, for their lack of eagerness upon teaching can truly affect a student’s outlook upon learning and the importance of education. For instance, in Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol, Kozol states that “the problem is systemic: The number of teachers over 60 years of age in the Chicago system is twice that of the teachers under 30. The salary scale, too low to keep exciting, youthful teachers in the system, leads the city to rely on low-paid subs, who represent more than a quarter of Chicago’s teaching force” (63).  This demonstrates a significant issue upon a student’s lack of a proper education in poor public schools, and that is the inability of keeping younger teachers in public schools due to low wages. Not being able to provide students with young and energetic teachers is highly harmful towards a students learning environment, for the elderly teachers are unable to perform their teaching abilities with great enthusiasm and that attitude can easily be spread throughout the entire class. That can undoubtedly transition students into a mood of carelessness towards learning. Its so unfortunate how the children who does not have the utmost choice of picking private schools over the urban public schools “are the kids most in need, and they get the worst teachers. You need an outstanding teacher” (Kozol 103). Poor funding towards urban public schools are truly taking a tole upon the students, especially when it comes to funding proper, passionate teachers. The students are not being taken seriously by the teachers and the students eventually begin to lose faith in themselves which optimistically results with students becoming aware of their own failures and self-worth.