Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Public Education & Inequality

The reason that public school was created in the United States was to train student as they grow up since the U.S. depended on science and technology. With this, it provided training for better jobs which was one of the important key to a stable and prosperous nation. Education not only provided financial security and social class it also assimilated millions of incoming immigrants.

Not only there were multiple benefits from it, but also it had some problems. These problems were during the first public school, it was only 4 months long of school since students were mistreated by their teachers. 

Years passed by after the first public school started, conditions started to change by providing child care for parents. More importantly it took kids away from working in factories where they needed to learn how to read, write, and lastly understand math. These school were known for being unequal where colored students had different opportunities. In these schools white students have 62% chance of actually attending the school itself, compare to colored students with 34%. Not only Americans or colored people were encourage to learn, but also Europeans, where schools replaced native language with English. 


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