1950's Separate & Unequal Review
The third section of "The story of American Public Education" discusses about the fight of equal oppurtunity for all races. According to this section, african americans, latinos and native americans were excluded from receiving equal to no education from any schools. During the time a good percentage of schools were considered illegal for other races beside white to participate and learn. Stories were explained as torture when several african americans are trying to get a good education, but was unable to due to a massive amount of violence from other people who discriminated them for being different. The battle begun after it was said that the 1950's was suppose to give everyone the same education, but haven't been accomplished.
One thing that interest me as a reader was the racial balance topic that shocked me as a definite evidence of bias toward another race. It was said that the opposite of equal education happened when african american teachers, administrator or anyone of power was fired, which resulted in a huge controversy towards the civil rights. I find it ridiculous that those in power are making the matters worse instead of fixing it the easier way. If there's a community asking for a change, then we should have that change. It's quite upsetting how an event like this is still taking place in our society today with the current issues of our presidents, recent school shootings. Our current issues would've been easily fixable, but those who're in charge of these issues doesn't seem to take it as granted, don't see this as a huge dilemma to be dealing with.
Another interesting thing about the section is the impact of women in schools. During the time men would see women as a thing of beauty, but were always underestimating a women capability of doing well just as men. I love Dorothy story of playing basketball with the men and eventually everything changed when she wanted to play a men sport, which is a diverse thing today for all kinds alike. How I find this important to the book is that this book is not all about education. This book represents how we strive to get something done which I feel we also lack in today's time. I like all of this argument and fighting going on to make a certain change and during the 1950's it seems that everyone was willing to open for opinions, whereas we have a difficult time trying to convince people to listen to a topic that they wouldn't be bothered.
Fast Forward to 2018 we currently have similar issues toward education such as more security for all schools incase of a shootout occurring and having a background check for everyone so we can feel more protected about kids and staff going into school. Another issue would be diversity which I don't think would ever be 100% forgotten as it's a common thing to see happening all over the world. Discrimination is a tough issue to deal with, but at least diversity has improved over the years and I'm happy I get to live in a diverse world meeting all types of life and learning to understand their whereabouts. As for protection I feel like no one is ever safe, it's always good to have protection, but as some point you have to protect yourself from a certain matter.
I see learning multiple languages provide an opportunity and advantage toward those who didn't come from another background. Americanization would be stuff to learn in america, but shouldn't be forced to lose what we already learned. Communities play a role in working together and making a change as I exampled with the school shootings. There was one moment of my life where I had a disadvantage of going to special education and I wasn't able to learn there as much of other kids learning in a bigger classer than I did. I was isolated from everyone else and that impacted me of having close friendship to a lot of people.
One thing that interest me as a reader was the racial balance topic that shocked me as a definite evidence of bias toward another race. It was said that the opposite of equal education happened when african american teachers, administrator or anyone of power was fired, which resulted in a huge controversy towards the civil rights. I find it ridiculous that those in power are making the matters worse instead of fixing it the easier way. If there's a community asking for a change, then we should have that change. It's quite upsetting how an event like this is still taking place in our society today with the current issues of our presidents, recent school shootings. Our current issues would've been easily fixable, but those who're in charge of these issues doesn't seem to take it as granted, don't see this as a huge dilemma to be dealing with.
Another interesting thing about the section is the impact of women in schools. During the time men would see women as a thing of beauty, but were always underestimating a women capability of doing well just as men. I love Dorothy story of playing basketball with the men and eventually everything changed when she wanted to play a men sport, which is a diverse thing today for all kinds alike. How I find this important to the book is that this book is not all about education. This book represents how we strive to get something done which I feel we also lack in today's time. I like all of this argument and fighting going on to make a certain change and during the 1950's it seems that everyone was willing to open for opinions, whereas we have a difficult time trying to convince people to listen to a topic that they wouldn't be bothered.
Fast Forward to 2018 we currently have similar issues toward education such as more security for all schools incase of a shootout occurring and having a background check for everyone so we can feel more protected about kids and staff going into school. Another issue would be diversity which I don't think would ever be 100% forgotten as it's a common thing to see happening all over the world. Discrimination is a tough issue to deal with, but at least diversity has improved over the years and I'm happy I get to live in a diverse world meeting all types of life and learning to understand their whereabouts. As for protection I feel like no one is ever safe, it's always good to have protection, but as some point you have to protect yourself from a certain matter.
I see learning multiple languages provide an opportunity and advantage toward those who didn't come from another background. Americanization would be stuff to learn in america, but shouldn't be forced to lose what we already learned. Communities play a role in working together and making a change as I exampled with the school shootings. There was one moment of my life where I had a disadvantage of going to special education and I wasn't able to learn there as much of other kids learning in a bigger classer than I did. I was isolated from everyone else and that impacted me of having close friendship to a lot of people.
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