Black men are more likely to go to prison or end up dead than to graduate from high school with a high school diploma, especially in inner cities where children are surrounded with violence on a daily basis. Society has made assumption about the black men intelligence since slavery times. Black men were always treated as though they were less than then everyone else and have been given the shorter end of the stick. Coach Carter was released in 2005 and According to the NAACP, the graduation rate for African American male students for the nation as a whole in 2005–06 was 47 percent. In 2005–06, less than half of all African American male students received diplomas with their class. The film was based on a true story in 1999 and the national
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Coach Carter discredited her teacher abilities by telling her that she needs to do her job as the school principal and educated these young boys so they can have a chance to go to college. Principal Garrison mindset an example of chapter four introduction where it states the frustration of public education in reference to the African-American communities and how teachers are not given people in the African-American communities enough attention or assisting them to climb the rope of a successful education learning experience. Before Coach Carter implemented “the lockout”, he gave each basketball player a contract to sign stating they must maintain a 2.3 GPA, attend all classes and sit in the front row of all classes. The contract was his first attempt to get his players, the principal and their parents that education is just as important as basketball games and stated “the key to winning in here, is the key to winning out there”. In other words once you grasp the concept of being a successful winning basketball team they will be able to take those skills they learned in school and apply them to their life. This is an example of what the book called “freedom” and “engaged pedagogy” where the teacher, (Coach Carter in this case), teaches in a way that empowers both the student and the teacher that leads to them (the basketball players), to have more educational freedoms with both sides exchanging knowledge they all can benefit
Coach Carter discredited her teacher abilities by telling her that she needs to do her job as the school principal and educated these young boys so they can have a chance to go to college. Principal Garrison mindset an example of chapter four introduction where it states the frustration of public education in reference to the African-American communities and how teachers are not given people in the African-American communities enough attention or assisting them to climb the rope of a successful education learning experience. Before Coach Carter implemented “the lockout”, he gave each basketball player a contract to sign stating they must maintain a 2.3 GPA, attend all classes and sit in the front row of all classes. The contract was his first attempt to get his players, the principal and their parents that education is just as important as basketball games and stated “the key to winning in here, is the key to winning out there”. In other words once you grasp the concept of being a successful winning basketball team they will be able to take those skills they learned in school and apply them to their life. This is an example of what the book called “freedom” and “engaged pedagogy” where the teacher, (Coach Carter in this case), teaches in a way that empowers both the student and the teacher that leads to them (the basketball players), to have more educational freedoms with both sides exchanging knowledge they all can benefit