Ancillary 8: Educational Inequality Contributors and Solutions
All articles could agree that segregation is still highly prevalent wih in public schools all across the United States, but had slightly differing opinions on contributorors and solutions of the widespread educational inequality. While one article discusses that the ultimate enemy is our own conscious mind, that the disparities lie in a choice that is made by white people, and non-white people to stay segregated even if their intentions lie within integration. That within liberal states, and counties people mean to integrate and support people of color, but within reality the groups stay separated.
Another article discusses how ultimately education is at the root of the problem, that teachers have a lack of education on eliminating racial bias within the classroom, and how to properly be inclusive. That board memebers continue to hire a larger majority of white teachers, and therefore POC students grow up with a lack of representation of themselves in academic positions, as their white teachers may enforce stereotypes. Along with the fact that minorites are often placed into educational programs about their culture, instead of being placed into more advanced programs and curriculum. That there is a true lack of minority representation in advanced placement programs within schooling. That these cultural curriculums should be more advanced, and I believe that these programs should be for white students as well to decrease the fact that learning of minority culture is only for minorities, when POC spend their entire lives learning white culture and history. That even in integrated into classrooms are different ideas of success that are being given to the white students and to the non-white students. Now I am not trying to say that all teachers are bad, and that every teacher is racist. I am simply saying that teachers exist within a system of educational injustice, and that many further contribute to that by continuing to uphold and mirror the steroeoptypes of our society.
Another article was looking at the lack of early childhood education, and language development how from an early age, white parents with more opportunity are giving more academic learning and vocabulary to their white children than non-white parents. I disagree with this stance as I believe it relates back to the principle of only accepting formal academic language as language in schooling, which is essentially the formal language of white people. How can you tell me that a white child leaning english is learning more vocabulary and context than a hispanic child learning english, spanish, and spanglish. But it comes down to a system of injustice, and emphasis taken away from POC.
