When reading the chapter, I truly understand the discrimination that had occurred against every child living in the United States who wasn’t a white Protestant. While I did recognize there were discrimination such as slavery, the removal of Native Americans from Native lands, etc., it just didn’t come to my awareness that the children had to face this discrimination as students as well. While it is now apparent that there was so much discrimination, it was good to find though that there were people that found that these were in fact injustices, and they tried to correct such discriminations against peoples put into place solely because of their ethnicity. Of course, while these attempts where made back in the 19th century, things still weren’t as they should be in the 20th century, and the case can certainly be made today that students of different backgrounds/ethnicities are not receiving equal treatment today.
My question revolves around the idea of trying to fix what was viewed wrong in the 18th century today. With such differences arising between many of these “problem schools” in the City of New York and a Public School in Nassau County (Jericho High School, a town in Nassau County, has ranked 6th in the nation in a Newsday article listing top Public Schools), how can these “problem schools” become more like the Jericho school which is 20 minutes away via a car ride?? Why is there such differences between these schools if public education is supposed to be equal for all? Is it actually supposed to be equal for all, or are we just led to believe such because of Supreme Court Cases?
