This chapter spoke about the creation of teachers unions and it is very interesting the way it spoke about the lack of power the unions had and how they were not as affective as they seemed it be. This really pertains to the modern day struggle teachers unions all over the United States have. In today’s educational system teachers are faced with the same battles of those 70 years before them and it is very sad to see that not much has changed.
Something else that was very déjà vu was when the book spoke about the youth of the 1920’s coming into the 1930’s this youth is plagued with similarities of the youth of today as well. The 1990’s were a time of economic prosperity and many children had an abundance of spending income because of their parents, when the market went bust in the past few years a lot of parents and their children really had to cut back and this really changed a lot of youth and the youth culture.
What kept striking me while reading the chapter was just how much history keeps repeating it and never really changing. The book spoke about issues with textbooks and trying to alter them to fit a stereotype ideal. Which is very similar to the idea that we looked at during the video in class about the schools in Texas.
