American Life, Hebert, Brown v. Board of Education
Tiffany Scoco
Dr. Corinne McKamey
Fned 346
3 November 2018
Response to Alyssa’s Blog
The Problem We All Live With- Part One Nikole Hannah-Jones
I am doing extended comments on Alyssa’s blog on her quotes from this weeks articles and listening assignments. I think Alyssa made some really good points. I liked the first quote she started with which was “Maria usually brought home A's but when she got a C Neshia asked the teacher why she had not been notified, the teacher told her that she had to many kids in her class to call all of their parents. Neshia said teachers did not seem to care. Classes were dumbed down, and often unorganized, and everything that seemed to be good news turned into bad news." I agree with what she said it seems to me like the teachers in the Missouri school district do not care about their students. They don’t keep good contact students parents either. As a future teacher I feel that all teachers should care about their students and their students success. A teacher's job is to educate students, help them grow into smart, well rounded responsible citizens. I also think it’s important to keep in touch regularly with parents, it doesn’t matter if their child is doing good or bad their parents should know about it. I think it’s absolutely horrible that students were prevented from graduating because the school lost their records. Those poor kids went to school, took the classes they needed to graduate, did their work all for nothing because the school lost their records. I would be so angry if any school ever did that to me. Lucky for me I save all my school work so I could prove I took a class by showing the work, it’s too bad the students at this school didn’t do that. This quote is relevant to the podcast because the podcast was talking about the parents of the Missouri school district learning about the horrible problems their children faced due to the school.
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I also liked the quote she used for the first reading “Ninety-five percent of education reform is about trying to make separate schools for rich and poor work, but there is very little evidence that you can have success when you pack all the low-income students into one particular school.” The author is talking about the demographics of a school, the hispanic and african american populations. The author is talking about the poverty levels and the class of the children. The article is talking about people wanting a change in the school system but not wanting to actually change anything. Everyone wants a mix of classes in schools but no one wants to actually send their children to a mixed school. It is very unlikely for a school full of low income children to have high success rates. The rates of success would significantly increase if there is a mix of incomes in the school. Children in higher income schools statistically do better than children in low income schools. The race of the children is irrelevant what matters is environment of the school and how good an educator the teachers are. In order for a school to have a mix of incomes race does come back into the picture. Integration is a good thing it makes children more open, accepting and well rounded adults. I agree with what Alyssa said nothing is going to change if continue segregating low income students into one school and high income students into another. This quote is relevant to the article because the author is talking about the demographics of schools and their effects on children.
Link to article:
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown vs. Board Of Education
I also liked the quote she used for the second reading "Through personal stories and broad historical themes, the exhibition traced the fight to bring the injustice of segregated schools before the United States Supreme Court. Their victory in Brown v. Board of Education transformed the nation." This quote is talking about how Brown v. Board of Education changed American history by eliminating segregation in schools in the 1950’s. This was major in the 1950’s because segregation was a huge problem in America. This ruling made it illegal to segregate public schools and help start the civil rights movement. This was one of the many turning points that transformed our nation. This is relevant to the Brown v. Board of Education website because the website talks about the events that took place.
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Talking point:
"Educators know that it is very difficult to get consistently good results in schools characterized by high concentrations of poverty. The best teachers tend to avoid such schools. Expectations regarding student achievement are frequently much lower, and there are lower levels of parental involvement. These, of course, are the very schools in which so many black and Hispanic children are enrolled."
I think that we as future teachers should try to fix this problem. All children deserve the best education possible it shouldn't matter what their families income is.
I glad that you agreed with my points that I made. I like how you added on to what I said. It made the points even stronger!
ReplyDeleteI love your last two sentences, they sum everything up perfectly!
ReplyDeleteIt is really sad that students were unable to graduate through no fault of their own. It's crazy how the podcast mentioned that at one graduation ceremony they openly apologized for failing to properly educate them. I can't see how any of this was allowed to happen
ReplyDeletei always think it’s interesting when other people do a blog post based off of someone else’s. i think it’s awesome because you can add onto someone else’s points and make them stronger, which is exactly what you did! especially in the last few sentences.
ReplyDeleteI like all the points you and alyssa made! You both have very strong points.
ReplyDeleteII like the last two sentences you used and I think that they are very important to the overall message you are trying to convey.
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