Literacy History- Blog Assignment #1

Statistics showing depression rates among college students in 2021 Vocational teaching in the U.S. From the beginning of the formation of the school system in the United States, there has been constant change and reform, which has brought great benefits to many students. Schools initially existed in bad conditions and it took one reformer to change the quality of desks, chairs, and blackboards. Then, in a later time period, many immigrants started arriving in America in order to offer their families a better life which meant sending their children to school. The problem with this was that these immigrants came to this country with nothing but the clothes on their backs, so how were they going to afford to send their children to an expensive school? This is when the public school system started becoming more recognized all across the country. The next period of reform came during the separate but unequal time frame where many families argued for the integration of black and white studen...

  Reform laws and programs along with activists have worked so hard to get our education system to the way it is now, where any child no matter their race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status, is able to attend public school and get a good, if not a decent education. Unfortunately, it is still not as ideal as we would like it to be because of the lack of open mindedness that continues being passed down to individuals from generation to generation. In the Ted Talk, Kandice Sumner stated that although we follow a nonsegregated and equal doctrine, we are even more segregated than ever. This statement had me, along with many others I’m sure, contemplating its meaning. Busing is a system Sumner shared her experience with, that allows children of underserved urban school to attend suburban schools that have many more resources available, allowing those students to engage in a more advanced and expanded curriculum.  Separate but equal, in my opinion will not exist for a very long time...