In The Service of What?- Connections

In the Service of What by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer is about the politics of service learning through the past decade in the United States. One point that the authors made was that service learning can improve communities in need, as well as providing a rich experience for students and community members. Funding for service learning began in the 1990's under President Clinton's National Service Trust act of 1993. The article also looked at two cases in which two different classrooms used service learning. One class directly went to places in their communities such as soup kitchens, or hospitals. The other classroom first studied the issues going on in their communities and how service learning could help both students and the community. Both these approaches are different but one is not wrong or better. 
Service learning is a great way to service the community that you live in. It also opens up the volunteer's eyes to what is going on outside of their own school. I found this video, that talks about service learning in their school and how it has been a positive experience for all of the kids there.
I connect this article with other articles we have read over the course this semester. I can first connect this reading with McIntosh's piece called "White Privilege" because of the general concept of that article.  Urban school children do not have as much privileged as white children who go to suburban schools. Most schools in the urban schools do not have alot of money; although they do get some money from the state as well as grants. This article reminded me of the backpack of privilege that McIntosh talks about. Having service learning in urban school's gives underprivileged schools and children a chance to have a backpack of privileged for a least a little while. 
I can also connect this article to Delpit's article "The silenced dialogue". Many of these articles that we read this semester can be related to Delpit. She talks about the culture of power that everyone in society follows. School especially follow this everyday. Children in urban school systems around this country are underprivileged, and therefore do not have the power. Having a chance to have service learning in their school has ultimate benefits to both the students, teachers and the surrounding communities.