This chapter shows a reflection on how schools have changed and developed throughout all these years. As we all know back then segregation against Native Americans and immigrants was a huge chapter in society; This segregation went all the way into classrooms and people’s lives to the point that native americans and immigrants would not have the same rights and opportunities available as white americans. Native Americans were seeing as savages and Irish immigrants were seeing as drunk immigrants who were here to destroy the American dream. Nowadays we all tend to believe that segregation is done in schools and society but is it? As we had spoke and argued a week ago, people still see immigrants and african americans a bit different, and I would say that because look at our schools today, how many different classes do we have that are related to black studies, asian studies and so on. My point is that even though society has developed a lot, yet today segregation or discrimination still exist. How can society be so selfish that there was a need to enforce the Pledge of Allegiance and religion back then? Fortunately at least today that has changed, students have the right to follow their own belief and are not obligated to say the Pledge of Allegiance every day. So yes society has improved but I believe its not close yet to the perfect world. What is the perfect world though? How can we be fair to each other and respect people’s opinions, culture and religion? WHat can the government do to improve that?
In my experience as an immigrant in public school is that I believe there is some sort of segregation being that I did go to NEWCOMERS High School, the name says it all, and even there there was some kind of discrimination and individualism meaning, there were a variety of cultures and each country/culture had its own lunch table where they would not let anyone else in but their own nationality. So I believe that at the end of the day we all have some sort of individualism and discrimination at some point and the government and schools do not seem to know how to deal with it. The big question is how can the government deal with it and improve society?
