Keke's Blog

  After thinking about the section, what I read, what I discussed as a group and the visual representation I  created in my collaborative project, the term "separate but equal" should not be a recommended viable option in education today. I first say that because for example, if we are separate but equal, the minorities  in school systems would not feel like they were being treated equal if they are separated simply just by  color. On the flip side, in today's society, maybe some African Americans and other colored people just  feel more comfortable surrounding themselves around people whose appearance looks more like theirs, thus having friends with the same and similar skin color. People who do not have the most diverse friend  group, could benefit from having a separate but equal education. In the beginning of the section, it states  that "In 1950, though it was often dangerous, and in seventeen states illegal, for ethnic minorities to  attend ...

After reflecting about the section, what I read, what I discussed as a group, and how you ranked your  group work, there are many ways that we can educate all children. In the textbook, Mondale explains that  "More and more districts established secondary schools and high school enrollments increased    dramatically in the twentieth century." This shows that education was beginning to become more open  minded with all different walks on earth, and not just mainly people of Caucasian descent. As the section moves forward "Two-thirds of the children in public schools in New York and Chicago had foreign-born  fathers." As many people began to complain in articles and books that "new immigration" had an  undesirable "racial stock" and was compared to the old immigration which was "illiterate, criminal,  dependent, and ill-fitted", immigration was restricted by Congress in 1920. However immigrants began to  enroll in public schools. With th...