Education is something that is strongly endorsed in the United State. It is strongly endorsed, yet unequal. The U.S is one of the most diverse countries in the world. There are people of all different races and cultures. Although, there are so many diverse groups of people, Whites still remain to be the most privileged. The privileges that White people have benefit them in every aspect of life. Many readings help support the evidence of this issue such as, “The Other Struggle For Equal School: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era” by Ruben Donato, “Education For Extinction” by David Wallace Adams and “Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom” by Lisa Delpit. These are three informative readings that clarify how Whites have advantages within education over people of color and different ethnicities.
In Donato, Adams’, and Delips’ readings, they all discuss different forms of segregation within education and how teachers do not know how to teach students of different races, cultures and classes. Many White people believe that school is a place of equality, but many are blind to what is actually happening in the education system. Throughout the years of school, we have learned a lot about segregation and discrimination between Whites and Blacks, but we have not really studied the relationship between Whites and different ethnicities. In the reading “The Other Struggle For Equal School: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era” by Ruben Donato, he discusses the prejudicial treatment within education between White Americans and Mexican Americans. Donato states, “Americans have either forgotten or never realized that most Mexican American children were segregated into “Mexican classrooms” or into entirely separate “Mexican school”(12). When the number of enrollments for Mexican Americans students got larger, educational institutions throughout the country produced tactics to separate them from White students. Even though some Mexican students had the knowledge and also spoke the English language they were still forced to be in a separate classrooms or put in a different schools. White parents and educators did not want White children mixed with Mexican children because they had this stereotypical idea that Mexicans were “dirty”, “stupid,” “lawless,” “diseases spreaders,” and “lazy” (15). Another way schools made it possible to separate Mexican children was by making them take the IQ test, which was completely unethical and unfair. The score on the IQ test was what schools based the children’s intelligence on. The author explained how many Mexican American children would leave school early because they were not interested, and did not like how they were treated. In multiple ways, the schooling practices of Mexican American students mirrored the experiences of African Americans. Donatos reading can be compared to Adams reading, “Education For Extinction” in many ways. These two readings are fairly similar as they explain segregation in education and the only difference is that Donato discusses discrimination between White Americans and Mexican Americans, whereas Adam discusses the discrimination between White Americans and Native Americans. The author explains the relationship between Whites and Indians and how they had a more drastic schooling system than the Mexican Americans. Adam states, “Indian life, it was argued, constituted a lower order of human society. In a word, Indians were savages because they lacked the very thing whites possessed- civilization” (Adams, 6). As Mexican Americans and African Americans were put in separate schools from Whites, Indians were shipped off to boarding schools that were run by Whites. These boarding schools were made to remove Indians from the land that White people wanted. They took Indian children away from their families to fully conformed …show more content…
Unlike the other authors, Delpit goes into further detail in discussing the proper way of teaching students of color and different cultures. In Delpits reading “Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, she reflects “the silenced dialogue” that she identifies as a constant issue in the United States schooling system. The author shares how African American teachers have expressed their feelings about being neglected when it came to the conversation regarding how to best educate children of color. A female African American teacher in the reading stated how White teachers were very arrogant. When the African American teacher tried to explain how
In Donato, Adams’, and Delips’ readings, they all discuss different forms of segregation within education and how teachers do not know how to teach students of different races, cultures and classes. Many White people believe that school is a place of equality, but many are blind to what is actually happening in the education system. Throughout the years of school, we have learned a lot about segregation and discrimination between Whites and Blacks, but we have not really studied the relationship between Whites and different ethnicities. In the reading “The Other Struggle For Equal School: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era” by Ruben Donato, he discusses the prejudicial treatment within education between White Americans and Mexican Americans. Donato states, “Americans have either forgotten or never realized that most Mexican American children were segregated into “Mexican classrooms” or into entirely separate “Mexican school”(12). When the number of enrollments for Mexican Americans students got larger, educational institutions throughout the country produced tactics to separate them from White students. Even though some Mexican students had the knowledge and also spoke the English language they were still forced to be in a separate classrooms or put in a different schools. White parents and educators did not want White children mixed with Mexican children because they had this stereotypical idea that Mexicans were “dirty”, “stupid,” “lawless,” “diseases spreaders,” and “lazy” (15). Another way schools made it possible to separate Mexican children was by making them take the IQ test, which was completely unethical and unfair. The score on the IQ test was what schools based the children’s intelligence on. The author explained how many Mexican American children would leave school early because they were not interested, and did not like how they were treated. In multiple ways, the schooling practices of Mexican American students mirrored the experiences of African Americans. Donatos reading can be compared to Adams reading, “Education For Extinction” in many ways. These two readings are fairly similar as they explain segregation in education and the only difference is that Donato discusses discrimination between White Americans and Mexican Americans, whereas Adam discusses the discrimination between White Americans and Native Americans. The author explains the relationship between Whites and Indians and how they had a more drastic schooling system than the Mexican Americans. Adam states, “Indian life, it was argued, constituted a lower order of human society. In a word, Indians were savages because they lacked the very thing whites possessed- civilization” (Adams, 6). As Mexican Americans and African Americans were put in separate schools from Whites, Indians were shipped off to boarding schools that were run by Whites. These boarding schools were made to remove Indians from the land that White people wanted. They took Indian children away from their families to fully conformed …show more content…
Unlike the other authors, Delpit goes into further detail in discussing the proper way of teaching students of color and different cultures. In Delpits reading “Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, she reflects “the silenced dialogue” that she identifies as a constant issue in the United States schooling system. The author shares how African American teachers have expressed their feelings about being neglected when it came to the conversation regarding how to best educate children of color. A female African American teacher in the reading stated how White teachers were very arrogant. When the African American teacher tried to explain how