First Response to Blog

I watched colleen's final presentation and I thought it was very interesting. Education is such a huge issue in this country and it affects everyone. I didn't know that segregation had a big impact on the issue of low-income education. Not much has changed since the civil rights movement when blacks were offered "separate but equal" rights as the whites. They were offered the same things but those rights were certainly not equal and this affected the school system as well. The blacks were denied the same quality education the whites were given so they were forced to have low-income jobs and live in low-income housing. The education system has affected almost everything in this country. The video she made talked about the differences today of schools with more minorities as opposed to schools with a majority of whites. The differences were shocking to me and it upset me because this issue still isn't resolved. I liked how she focused on the racial issue in education. I never thought about that aspect of it and it put a really interesting perspective on it for me. When she said "It is not that each person in America needs to have the same knowledge, but the same opportunity to have the knowledge needs to be offered. America currently does not offer that" it made so much sense to me. Equal education is not about each child being equally knowledgable, its about giving each child the same opportunities to be educated. To be successful in this country, you must have a formal education. Shouldn't every child in America be given the equal opportunity to be successful? America is known as the land of opportunity, not the land of opportunity only for privlaged people. This was such an interesting topic and it made me want to know more and research it even further.