In 1954, through the court case Brown v Board of Education, schools were forced to integrate; making “separate, but equal” schools and other facilities illegal (Divided 2). At the time, many people were outraged by the ruling. Today, it’s hard to imagine what segregation would be like. People feel positive about integration, but not everyone. The differentiating views are shown through the opinions on racially and ethnically diverse schools. Some do believe students experience benefits in social and educational ways while attending a diverse school. Although, some people don’t see the benefits of a diverse school. Having a diverse school isn’t a concern of most people. Diverse schools aren’t prioritized because of the belief of lots of work being involved and that diverse schools take away things from other students. With anything, work has to be done to achieve the goal. Just like …show more content…
Children will learn to be more accepting of others. Because the world is becoming more diverse, people need to respond. Former superintendent of the Seattle Public Schools, Joseph Olchefske, has said “we clearly believe that diversity [in schools is] important to our children as they grow up in a multicultural world” (Divided 1). Negative opinions about people of other races is affected by things such as what is heard or seen on the news, but even more by personal experiences (Farrington 2). So, being accepting of others can be difficult if views are skewed. Jacqueline Echois, a ninth grader who’s a part of her school’s cultural relations club, has said, “You get comfortable with your stereotypes and your opinions. If no one tells me I’m wrong, I think I’m right” (Shaw 2). Attending a racially diverse school helps students break the stereotypes of other races, ethnicities, or religions, even people of different socioeconomic statuses. Diverse schools teach kids to look past just what they see on the
Unequal funding and lack of opportunities offering are restricted minority students to compete to white students. The school system is not independently separated from race and racism as people think. Race and racism are social illness that immediately need action in order to bring the best atmosphere and energy for educational system because schools are places for teaching and learning. Schools should not allow race and racism affect their spaces’ neutralization. Withstanding race and racism in education is a long and difficult task, but it is a worthy effort because in the future, all children will able to receive a better and equal
The school is huge and being a college prep school it is also selective in the students who get enrolled. The focus is on teaching and learning. The school seems predominately white with a few students of color.
The school systems are supposed to be the institutions responsible for this education, but are they impartial in their methods? I went to a relatively small school in northeast Pennsylvania which had a predominantly low to middle class Caucasian population. There were hardly any minorities in the school system, and as a result the minorities there did not receive a culturally diverse education. It was much easier for the teacher to teach to the majority in the methods that the majority could understand. These minorities had to assimilate to our practices our fail. This hardly solves the problem of educating students so they can provide for their future families. Of course the minorities in the school are not going to be a...
“There is exactly one sentence about why schools should want to discriminate… It reads, ‘When the state’s most elite universities are less diverse, [a school official] said, it doesn’t provide our students with a level of diversity they need in order to learn about other cultures and other communities’…And that’s supposed to outweigh all these costs of discrimination; It is personally unfair, passes over better qualified students, and sets a disturbing legal, political, and moral precedent in allowing racial discrimination.”
The Supreme Court is perhaps most well known for the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. By declaring that segregation in schools was unconstitutional, Kevern Verney says a ‘direct reversal of the Plessy … ruling’1 58 years earlier was affected. It was Plessy which gave southern states the authority to continue persecuting African-Americans for the next sixty years. The first positive aspect of Brown was was the actual integration of white and black students in schools. Unfortunately, this was not carried out to a suitable degree, with many local authorities feeling no obligation to change the status quo. The Supreme Court did issue a second ruling, the so called Brown 2, in 1955. This forwarded the idea that integration should proceed 'with all deliberate speed', but James T. Patterson tells us even by 1964 ‘only an estimated 1.2% of black children ... attended public schools with white children’2. This demonstrates that, although the Supreme Court was working for Civil Rights, it was still unable to force change. Rathbone agrees, saying the Supreme Court ‘did not do enough to ensure compliance’3. However, Patterson goes on to say that ‘the case did have some impact’4. He explains how the ruling, although often ignored, acted ‘relatively quickly in most of the boarder s...
I believe that my district should implement a multicultural curriculum because it helps to foster a sense of inclusiveness and respect for all people and groups. Moreover, it helps to give students the positive awareness of different sociocultural groups, and helps to limit discrimination of different cultural groups. Likewise, it gives students positive interactions between different backgrounds, and makes students consciously aware of the importance of diversity.
The Pros of Diversity: It is far easier to relate with people when you treat everyone exactly the same. It also feels good when you know someone everywhere you go. A bigger group brings a larger sense of community.
The purpose of schools today is, unfortunately, to create a well-trained rather than well-educated workforce. However, the true purpose of schooling should be to educate all students equitably, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, etc., so that they can use logic and reasoning to make informed decisions (Spring, 6). Teachers are at the frontline in the struggle to create well-educated citizens within a diverse and democratic society. This essay will examine the criteria needed to create the ideal citizen of a diverse and democratic society, as well as how I as an educator plan to integrate and promote democracy and diversity in my teaching practices.
The advantages of diversity in classrooms promote positive images for United States of America in terms of the status quo, and it promotes rich experiences for students and teachers. In terms of status quo, diversity in classrooms challenges America’s status quo. It challenges America’s status quo by breaking the standards of American classroom traditions. Back in the days, the typical American classroom were taught by white women and white men, filled with white students. They all came from the same background, culture and economic status. There is no wrong in having people of the same culture, and race come together in one classroom, but students and teachers do not gain as much opportunities or rich experiences as they would if they were surrounded by diverse stude...
The world is currently undergoing a cultural change, and we live in an increasingly diverse society. This change is not only affect the people in the community but also affect the way education is viewed. Teaching diversity in the classroom and focusing multicultural activities in the programs can help improve positive social behavior in children. There is no question that the education must be prepared to embrace the diversity and to teach an increasingly diverse population of young children.
In conclusion, diverse people are great to learn new ideologies and cultures. All around us we can find diversity in people. I as a person learn from them more than I learn from myself. Diversity, is a learning experience for all. And every single person has experienced diversity in pretty diverse
One of these disadvantages is the student’s family. It is possible that the student’s family would be a disadvantage by their children’s admission in a diverse school environment. Multicultural education is responsible for the conveyance of different cultures to students who do not belong to the communities. Families would hence disapprove of their children going to schools that teach them of different cultures, considering that many students are attached to their families very closely. For instance, learning about different cultures may change the feelings of students towards a certain culture. Integrating students into the environment with students from different racial and ethnic background can also lead to prejudice and discrimination among them. This is thus disadvantageous to the students who are of ethnic minority communities, and it may inhibit their academic achievement. It justifies the parents who prefer taking their students to the schools that have their children’s race as the dominant one. Students who learn in schools that have their race as the predominant in the institution are also likely to do better (USA Today, para
...trated in the inner city where the worst, most impoverished schools are located. Therefore, even if they wish to attend school, they still receive have less access to good teachers and a good learning environment. And perhaps the most detrimental issue that minorities face is that they are often stigmatized as inferior. This causes them to be treated differently and it causes them to have low expectations for themselves, which leads to poor performance.
For example, in the Conway school district, ninety six percent of teachers are white while point six percent are Latin American and one percent are American Indian. The school is not reaching its capability of reaching all students because of the huge gap in diversity. The board of education does not consider that racial diversity does matter in the classroom. There are several benefits to having a diversity among students such as being able to collaborate with one another. Each mind thinks differently which leads to each students expanding their knowledge on certain topics discussed in the classroom. Maybe issues and scenarios like that do not matter to school boards, but do matter to the
At first glance, I will be totally honest, I knew little to nothing about diversity. I am a white female from a middle-class family and was lucky enough to never see a diversity problem in my schools. This course reiterated the fact that I was not aware of all the diversity in the classroom and the world today. Growing up, none of my teachers really discussed or related topics to cultural backgrounds other than the most common “white middle class”. My parents have always taught me to treat everyone the same no matter the color of their skin, religion, ability, disability, cultural background, sexual orientation, and values of life. I believed that my upbringing and surroundings contributed to the way I acknowledged diversity, but I was wrong. Diversity is more than just accepting the facts, but acting on the facts. Diversity indeed comes in many from the race, gender, ability/disability, age and cultural background is just a few. As a future educator, it is important for me to understand diversity and how to incorporate that into my future classroom. This class really helped me open up about what diversity means to me and how I can be an effective teacher to those who need me the most. For the first time, I was able to put in the effort to