Choosing education as my pre 1865 choice to compare with current education, seems like one of the most important comparisons. Being that I am in college working towards my dream of becoming a teacher, the prospect that any person in the United States of America does not obtain at minimum a basic education is appalling. Education has always remained the key to a superior life, but social standing and race in the United States of America generally speaking determines who befits from an education, and what type of education is received. Withholding education from an entire race or social group increases the probability of poverty and crime. Although improvements in education have occurred since slavery, further advancement is necessary to call
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Although there have been many changes in the laws regarding the education of African Americans since slavery, sadly there are still similarities when it comes to the funding and the support of African American schools and education.
The commonalities between pre 1865 and modern day African Americans education are not as numerous as in the past, however similarities that remain are just as oppressive. Pre 1865 some Northern states permitted free blacks to attend black only schools (Federal Writers Project between 1936 and 1938). African American schools were frequently held in churches, which were no more than a cabin or lean-to. Black schools were not considered significant and the states refused to fund the schools. Due to insufficient funding of African American schools, black schools received fewer books, worse buildings, and teachers were paid less (-, Slavery and the Making of America 2014). Some white raciest were under the opinion that black children were unable to become anything more than a field hand or servant and did not need an education to accomplish this job. This way of thinking justified the opinion, why should any funding be taken from the white schools, which were the more important (-, Slave Codes 2014). Many whites …show more content…
When the first African American schools had no government fund, and now in 2015 the funding for minority schools are far less than that of wealthier mostly white schools we need to question who is not understanding the need for equality in the schools. When a country spends what the United States of America spends on prisons, but refuses to understand that not spending the money initially on our young for their education, we will spend that money and more on jail later. To me it is not a difficult solution, stop paying schools by taxes paid in a county and take all taxes from every were and distribute money evenly. That way every student in the United States of America has the same investment in their future. Paying educators less to teach African American children does not entice the best possible teachers to stay long term at a minority school. Teachers already make less money than most other professions, they should get paid by their skills not by the skin color of the students. It may not be said out loud but actions show that an African American child’s education in general is not as important as their Caucasian child counterpart. The Equal Education Opportunities Act of 1974 was a major advancement in African American education, but by keeping education state regulated each state decides who gets the funding and who doesn’t, many states
Although there have been many changes in the laws regarding the education of African Americans since slavery, sadly there are still similarities when it comes to the funding and the support of African American schools and education.
The commonalities between pre 1865 and modern day African Americans education are not as numerous as in the past, however similarities that remain are just as oppressive. Pre 1865 some Northern states permitted free blacks to attend black only schools (Federal Writers Project between 1936 and 1938). African American schools were frequently held in churches, which were no more than a cabin or lean-to. Black schools were not considered significant and the states refused to fund the schools. Due to insufficient funding of African American schools, black schools received fewer books, worse buildings, and teachers were paid less (-, Slavery and the Making of America 2014). Some white raciest were under the opinion that black children were unable to become anything more than a field hand or servant and did not need an education to accomplish this job. This way of thinking justified the opinion, why should any funding be taken from the white schools, which were the more important (-, Slave Codes 2014). Many whites …show more content…
When the first African American schools had no government fund, and now in 2015 the funding for minority schools are far less than that of wealthier mostly white schools we need to question who is not understanding the need for equality in the schools. When a country spends what the United States of America spends on prisons, but refuses to understand that not spending the money initially on our young for their education, we will spend that money and more on jail later. To me it is not a difficult solution, stop paying schools by taxes paid in a county and take all taxes from every were and distribute money evenly. That way every student in the United States of America has the same investment in their future. Paying educators less to teach African American children does not entice the best possible teachers to stay long term at a minority school. Teachers already make less money than most other professions, they should get paid by their skills not by the skin color of the students. It may not be said out loud but actions show that an African American child’s education in general is not as important as their Caucasian child counterpart. The Equal Education Opportunities Act of 1974 was a major advancement in African American education, but by keeping education state regulated each state decides who gets the funding and who doesn’t, many states