How did Jim Crow shape education into what it is today? With the establishment of Jim Crow, it showed the influence that inequality has on people. The laws showed later generations, and Jim Crow non-supporters, how not to treat people. Through these laws, people realized that race does not determine or influence your potential or intelligence in the world. What does determine your intelligence and potential is your own education and how you gain that education. The establishment of schools and the desegregation laws is to give everyone the ability to have a fighting chance for equality. This is the idea that America was built upon and still holds in the root of it all today. America has changed in multiple ways since Jim Crow was established
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Not only in America but in many other countries this is still an on going fight. The idea of segregation in schools has been established since the first time African American children were allowed to attend the same schools as white children. Today many children from impoverished areas and immigrants coming into America struggle to attend school over many of lives struggles. Whether it be having to worry about taking care of younger siblings, inability to get to school, language barriers, or their schools shutting down, the fight for attending school is still a very large problem in society today. Different struggles were apparent back in Jim Crow Era but some similarities are …show more content…
One very obvious discrimination was the distribution of salaries. White educators were payed significantly more than their black counterparts during Jim Crow and after until around the 1940-1950s. The inequality of salaries is still evident today. Public and private school teachers each have separate salaries. The choice to teach in a private school, the majority of the time, comes with a significant decrease in pay. Due to job competition many teachers refuse to protest against the inequality do to fear of losing their job. Often times when protests are successful, the funding is not adequate enough for great changes to be made. One example today would be the fight for special education schools. For many children the typical classroom environment is not adequate enough to meet their educational needs. Therefore, the construction of special education schools greatly benefit the children. This is counteracted by the educational act (IDEA) for children with mental, emotion, or physical disabilities to have a least restrictive learning environment (LRE). A least restrictive learning environment is the inclusion of students with disabilities to be in a classroom as frequently as possible and generally populated with students without disabilities. Students are allowed an aid to assist them in their learning and by federal law are not to be removed because of their
Not only in America but in many other countries this is still an on going fight. The idea of segregation in schools has been established since the first time African American children were allowed to attend the same schools as white children. Today many children from impoverished areas and immigrants coming into America struggle to attend school over many of lives struggles. Whether it be having to worry about taking care of younger siblings, inability to get to school, language barriers, or their schools shutting down, the fight for attending school is still a very large problem in society today. Different struggles were apparent back in Jim Crow Era but some similarities are …show more content…
One very obvious discrimination was the distribution of salaries. White educators were payed significantly more than their black counterparts during Jim Crow and after until around the 1940-1950s. The inequality of salaries is still evident today. Public and private school teachers each have separate salaries. The choice to teach in a private school, the majority of the time, comes with a significant decrease in pay. Due to job competition many teachers refuse to protest against the inequality do to fear of losing their job. Often times when protests are successful, the funding is not adequate enough for great changes to be made. One example today would be the fight for special education schools. For many children the typical classroom environment is not adequate enough to meet their educational needs. Therefore, the construction of special education schools greatly benefit the children. This is counteracted by the educational act (IDEA) for children with mental, emotion, or physical disabilities to have a least restrictive learning environment (LRE). A least restrictive learning environment is the inclusion of students with disabilities to be in a classroom as frequently as possible and generally populated with students without disabilities. Students are allowed an aid to assist them in their learning and by federal law are not to be removed because of their