FNED 346 Blog

Michael Brown's graduation picture. Elizabeth Eckford being heckled at by a crowd of white people at 15 for being the first person of color to attend Little Rock Central High School.  Integration in schools is something that many educational facilities are lacking, this is the reality of our world. We are still desegregating white and black schools, and it is due to discrimination in communities. Nikole Hannah Jones followed the story of those attending at the Normandy school district in which was unaccredited for nearly fifteen years because it had such inadequate teaching, supplies and general education. This left those who went there seeking other schools to attend and those at Francis Howell to be upset by this new change which had 85% white people attending. Many white parents were discriminating against the students and parents wanting to attend just based on their color, and stating that there would be more violence, lower test scores, and drug ...

Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrew was told as a child by her mother that you should be flying above the storm and soar like an eagle and this shows that a child is capable of great things and should focus on themselves no matter what's going on. For a lot of people, it is very hard to not focus on things around you though. Racism was very prevalent back in the day, especially in an academic setting. There were challenges that other white schools didn’t have such as overcrowding and teachers not properly trained when segregation was prevalent in America. The separate and unequal system that students were being taught in created problems but many persevered. The educational inequalities are the storm that the eagle flies above. The educational storm for young people today is not much different from 1948, in 2012 40% of Black youth attend high poverty schools, and 6% of youth attend high poverty schools. When compared this seems like a separate and unequal system of education. For every 1...