After reading Chapter 5 go to the Becoming a Professional DVD included with your textbook. Click on ABC News, and then this chapter's video: The Reunion. This ABC News documentary examines the lasting effects of school integration during the civil rights struggle in the 1960's by doing something that has never been done before-gathering together the first wave of students who went through it themselves in Shaker Heights, Ohio. This groups was at the center of the storm when their parents, at the height of the civil rights movement, carried out a bold and controversial social experiment in one of America's wealthiest suburbs. Now these 1960 kindergarten classmates reunite to see where the years and education have taken them from their then-new frontier - an integrated American suburb.
Respond to the following questions:
1. How does school integration relate to the idea of "separate but equal"?
2. What were the goals of integration?
3. Why was it necessary to bus students to achieve integration?
4. How is economic integration similar to and different from racial integration?
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1. I think that school integration relates to the idea of separate but equal because the students are integrated into the same school. They are all suppose to be treated as an equal, but that does not alway happen, therefore they are all still separate. I think that schools should have black and white students, there is no need to separte them and I think that in the video they felt the same way. The kindergarten students were around different races, so as they were growing up they just saw their integration as normal. The separate but equal was not good because they segregated minorities, but then considered their opportunites equal.
2. The goals of the integration were for the students to be able to go to the same schools and work together. The people in the video said that because they had gone to school together, they were comfortable and exposed to one another and they believe that was very good. They were comfortable with each other's skin color and cultures.
3. It is necessary because then it is possible for them to achieve integration. When the students are in a classroom together and work together, then they do not know any different. If they are always in these types of classes then they have nothing to question, because that is normal.
4. It is similar because you are integrating two different types of people that do not think they will fit in with one another, or get along. It is different though, because there are different values and cultures involved. Also people view them differently and have their own opinions about each one.
1. School integration relates to separate but equal because when a school is integrated there are many races in it and it supposedly works equally. A school that is separate but equal is also supposed to be equal. Sometimes integrated schools are still racist and therefore do not work but separate but equal definitely does not work because it is wrong to separate different races of people and it is unrealistic for the real world because eventually you are going to have to work with people from other races.
2. The goals of integration are to let children be exposed to people from different races and cultures, there by making people that are less judgmental in the future. Like in the video, if you go to school with people of different cultures, it just seems like a normal part of life to you.
3. It is necessary to bus integrated students because then they have an outside view of someone that they are in a classroom with. They not only have to work with them in school but they can also talk to them on the bus and see where they live. Bus routes are a good way for people to become friends.
4. Economic and racial integration are similar because they are both school that have different cultures in it. They are different because most likely if a school has different races of people, they come from the same social class and it is easier for them to relate, but if they come from different social classes, this can cause some tension in some classrooms.
1. How does school integration relate to the idea of seperate but equal?
I think the video was a perfect example of how schools were long ago, and how schools are today.I think that some schools may have felt that because they allowed black children in their schools, they were automatically treating them equal. Just because they were allowed to go to the same school, does not mean that they were allowed the same opportunities as everyone else. I thought the video was very interesting because one of the black women was talking about their school work assignments. When the white students turned in their papers, they would always get A's but when the black students turned in their papers,they got B's and B-'s. I thought it was very clever that they thought of switching up the papers; the white students turned in papers that the black students had written and the black students turned in the papers that the white students had written. They came to find out that the white students had gotten A's on the papers that the black students had written. That goes to show that just because the the schools are integrated, doesn't always mean that they are treated equally.
2. What were the goals of integration?
The main goal of integration is to achieve equal opportunity in education without limits.
3. Why was it necessary to bus students to achieve integration?
I believe it was necessary because maybe for many people transportation to schools was very difficult. So, to ensure that everyone had an equal opportunity to get to school, they had a transportation system. Also, I think they wanted to let people know that it was okay for whites and blacks to ride on the same bus with no assigned seating.
4. How is economic integration similar to and different from racial integration?
I thought it was very interesting in the video when they said that the achievement gap in schools was more related to economic class that skin tone. I think when students and their parents are living at or below the poverty line, it is harder for them to have the same opportunites in education as everyone else. Both racial and economic integration have many different types of cultures involved.
1. School intergration relates to "seperate but equal" in that the intergrated students (black) attended the same school (as the whites). However, equal treatment of the black students didn't happen. The attempts at equality were often racist.
2. The goal of integration was to create equality for all students and to provide the opportunity for minorities and whites to attend school together.
3. Most African American families did not live near the white middle-class suburban schools, so it was necessary to bus them.
4. According to the video, the income was double that for the whites than it was for the blacks living in Shaker Heights. Economic integration and racial integration are the same in that the "playing fields" are not equal. Wealth affords tutoring, music lessons, college, etc. Lower income families cannot afford these types of opportunites.
1. In this case, I think that integration relates to separate but equal because the students are in the same school. Although the students are integrated, it is not equal. It seemed like the kindergarten class experienced a pretty integrated learning experience with everything pretty much equal, but things changed when they went on to junior high. Even the recent students shown on the video experienced integration without everything being equal. For example, the higher placement math class was mainly white. But, the school is trying to get more races into the higher math class.
2. The goals of integration are to get children familiar and comfortable with their classmates of different races. I think that integration was a bigger deal when those people were in kindergarten because that was during the time of civil rights and Martin Luther King. I think that people at that time were made aware of integration happening, verus the present time where integration does not seem like such a big deal. (At least not where I grew up going to school.)
3. It was necessary to bus students to achieve integration because there were commonly "white" and "black" neighborhoods, and to have a successfully integrated school, both races must be present. The time spent on the bus gave the students further chance to get to know one another and to have relationships develop.
4. Racial and economic integration are similar because they both bring together students with different backgrounds. They are different because social classes can differ throughout race and cultures. i think that social class and status are more of an issue in today's schools than race, and it seems like what students have and the brands they wear are a bigger issue now than when I went to school. Maybe that's because when I was in school, there were no ipods, iphones, and texting, but it seems that younger students are concerned about wearing certain brands than when I was in school. Also, social class really limits students in today's world than does race. For example, you need money to take lessons in music or sports to succeed in school. Presently, skin color does not limit or prevent a student in excelling in school, sports, or music the way that money does.
I believe integration is the central idea of sparation and equality. The students are integrated into the same local school. They are all supposed to be equal and equally treated. They are not always treated equally therefore they still remain separate. There is no need to separate races. We are all created equal. If you raise children from kidergarten on up to realize that all are created equal, integration will not be a problem. They will see this as normal. The separate but equal was not a good idea because segregation was still an issue.
1.) I think schools should have mixed students because it teaches the kids to adapt to new situations and to meet new people and kids with different backgrounds and opens their eyes to different cultures. I also think that if you have children
around other races at an early age then children wont even see segeration as a problem because they have never had to deal with it.
2.)The main idea of the intergration was so that kids would be able to be comfortable working with different skin colors. The children did in fact seem very comfortable, it didn't even seem like race was an issue.
3.) Well alot of the times african american students didn't live close to a white school. It also gave the opportunity for them to ride together.
4.) Most of the african americans had less money and couldn't afford to have to oportunities some of the white kids did have. This movie also said that the white famalies were making almost double then the african american famalies.
1.) School integration relates to the idea 'separate but equal' because once students are integrated together, they are as one. Many races come together. These races are 'separate', but since they are coming together in one school, they are equal in the sense that they are all learning the same things.
2.) The goals of integration were to let the children experience people of different race or backgrounds in their school and allow the children equal opportunities to learn.
3.)It was necessary to bus students to achieve integration because there should be a fair and equal way for all students to get to the same place. This also allows students to get to know each other outside of school.
4.) Economic integration is similar to racial integration because they both have to do with bringing children together that come from different race or backgrounds (poor and rich). These two are different because economic deals with people and their money or wealth while racial deals with race, obviously.
I think that Intergration relates to the idea of seperate but equal and I think that schools should strive to have a varitey of different races in their student population.
2.) The goals were that students would be able to go to the same school and that they are comfortable for with all different races.
3.) I think that once students start working together they will not notice the difference between races.
4.) It is simlar because you are intergrating two groups of people
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