Blog #5
Hello, everyone and welcome back to my final blog!! I'd like to say even though how graded assignments can be a little annoying at times I have really enjoyed blogging my thoughts and reactions. As I continued to read The Shame of The Nation I found myself becoming more comfortable with talking to an audience that is larger than just my teacher. This book really opened my eyes to the harsh world outside of our small little town in New Hampshire. One question that I had the whole time when I was reading this book was, what can we do to help integrade schools more and help put an end to some of the segregation?
In class we have recently been spending a great amount of time on dealing with race, bias, and segregation as a whole. In a recent example we saw it said that racial bias or racism isn’t just on one individual it is on a community as a whole. This is seen sort of like a trickl down effect where everyone in the community is affected. Well I think this is the same in the sense of education, when everyone thinks that they aren’t good enough or they don’t belong that affects the whole community and overall will make what they think become true. Like the example where people said that men were better than women at science and math and they believe that and women ended up getting worse scores than men. This trickle or waterfall affect can happen in any thing but I think this is a huge thing that can help in desegregating school systems. First the students need to have faith in themselves that they can do it and they deserve better for anything to happen.
Next I think that the integration of schools need to be more regulated. I know this a hard task to do but when there is a school with all white children and all black children there are some clear signs of segregation. In areas with a high level of African Americans there should be far more integration to end segregation in public education is what Kozol mainly advocates for. There are enough children of color and white children to put them together into one school and allow for a more diverse schooling where no one is discriminated against due to there color. Children in there areas are taught at a very young age how they are different or seen as less than, than children that are white. These school systems need to integrate some schools to give children a goal and something to strive for which is being in a school where they will not be discriminated due to their skin color.
This unit on race really opened my eyes about schooling in America and what some children go through. It is very hard for me to be able to feel what these children are feeling because I am a white student who lives in a town of mostly all white people which means that our diversity is not very high and therefore we do not experience as much discrimination in my town. After we started this unit I started to see this as a bigger issue, not only did I realize that discrimination was bad in schooling I also realized it's an issue everywhere. If we all realize this than we can help change segregation in schooling and everywhere else.
In class we have recently been spending a great amount of time on dealing with race, bias, and segregation as a whole. In a recent example we saw it said that racial bias or racism isn’t just on one individual it is on a community as a whole. This is seen sort of like a trickl down effect where everyone in the community is affected. Well I think this is the same in the sense of education, when everyone thinks that they aren’t good enough or they don’t belong that affects the whole community and overall will make what they think become true. Like the example where people said that men were better than women at science and math and they believe that and women ended up getting worse scores than men. This trickle or waterfall affect can happen in any thing but I think this is a huge thing that can help in desegregating school systems. First the students need to have faith in themselves that they can do it and they deserve better for anything to happen.
Next I think that the integration of schools need to be more regulated. I know this a hard task to do but when there is a school with all white children and all black children there are some clear signs of segregation. In areas with a high level of African Americans there should be far more integration to end segregation in public education is what Kozol mainly advocates for. There are enough children of color and white children to put them together into one school and allow for a more diverse schooling where no one is discriminated against due to there color. Children in there areas are taught at a very young age how they are different or seen as less than, than children that are white. These school systems need to integrate some schools to give children a goal and something to strive for which is being in a school where they will not be discriminated due to their skin color.
This unit on race really opened my eyes about schooling in America and what some children go through. It is very hard for me to be able to feel what these children are feeling because I am a white student who lives in a town of mostly all white people which means that our diversity is not very high and therefore we do not experience as much discrimination in my town. After we started this unit I started to see this as a bigger issue, not only did I realize that discrimination was bad in schooling I also realized it's an issue everywhere. If we all realize this than we can help change segregation in schooling and everywhere else.
Hey Lauren!
ReplyDeleteGreat post! You included concepts that we learned in class, which I think made it relevant to those that didn't read your book and made it easier to comprehend. Additionally, you had a really great conclusion by talking about how this relates to you and where you live. I agree with you that Hopkinton, a primarily white town, does not have the discrimination seen in other places in this country. I am really glad that we have been able to study race in our class, because as you said as well, it has really opened my eyes to the issues of this country.
Great job!
Ellie M