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After Brown v. Board of Education
This article was an interesting read as I have experienced my first year teaching in a diverse school and classroom compared to my first year of teaching. When I taught in Michigan, last year, the school was primarily white dominate with little black, Native American, or mixed races. However, this year teaching in Florida I have a lot of different races in my classroom. I have learned a lot about different cultures and their different views on school and other activities.
I believe, as the article states, that integration of schools will only benefit students in the long run. As the students stated in the article, when they get out into the real world they will be with people who are different from them in a lot of ways. It is crutical for students to be exposed to people who are different and who they have things in common with as there is a lot to learn from one another. We are trying to prepare our students to be successful in the real-world so we need to give them opportunties to practice being successful and gaining both the intellectual and social skills to do just that.
This article hit home for me today! I was at a conference yesterday on analyzing data. One of the things we were asked to do was to look at how our minority students did on the tests this year. I always feel embarrassed to admit that not only do I teach in a district where we can name ALL of our African American students, but our largest minority group--Hispanic students--only has about five kids per class!!! I wish I taught in a more diverse community, and I really need to expose my kids to different cultures!!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. That is partly why I disagree with the concept of Historically Black Colleges & Universities. It doesn't reflect the real world. A majority of places require interaction between various races. There may be a majority of certain races in one place at any given time but it is still good to know how to interact in diverse situations.
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