Pragmati American Schools Case Study

In America public education is here because we want every child to receive an education. Public education should be about preparing a child for working or going off to college. Public education should teach children about individuality and also about other cultures that are not the same as their own. A democracy is being able to have access to everything as everyone else. Everyone should be considered equal and their should not be divisions of class, race, gender, or sexuality. I think that democracy in the education system should be that all schools are equal and not based off of property tax. It is not fair that a child that is born into poverty may never leave poverty because of the education and community they live in. America is known as having a democracy, I personally do not believe that we are. In our system we have hegemony, which means that in almost all our systems are being controlled and manipulated to keep things a certain way. While reading the case study I noticed some of things occurring in Miamifield's school district.

When looking at the recommendations that I have for Miamifield I think they are based upon the philosophy of …show more content…
It eventually allowed white girls to be educated. American schools during the industrial revolution was to prepare students to work in factories or any other industrial career. African Americans fought for their children to be educated just as any other white american. Jim Crow laws allowed both Black and white students to go to school but separately. Brown v. Board of education changed the law so that schools would be integrated. During Jim Crow laws African American students often received poor supplies or the used material from the white schools. Although the Jim Crow laws seems like something of the past there are studies that are saying it has not disappeared, it just has a different name. School to prison pipeline is known as the new Jim Crow