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          There is no argument, schools are still segregated. But why? Haven't we passed this already, haven't we dealt with it? Did Brown vs Board of Education mean nothing? Yes we have tried to fix this problem and include everyone and every little effort has been for the better but depending on who you are and where you grow up, you might not be granted the same education as someone else. This can be because a student attends a lower-income school which means that there are fewer resources which will affect the level of education being given.       I feel that it is sad that race and poverty are intertwined. I watched a video recently about college and how unfair being a legacy student is. A legacy student is a student who is given preference by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. The reason I think this is unfair is that a majority of these st...

What Does Money Really Have To Do With It? Money actually has a lot to do with it. If schools are better funded it means smaller class sizes, which give students more quality time with their teachers, leading to better-developed social, emotional, and cognitive skills. Better-funded schools also mean more hands-on learning opportunities, allowing students to engage with problems and practice what they’ve learned. Education is the basis of an informed democracy and the bridge to lifelong opportunities. One article I read talked specifically about how 1 out of 10 students in the US attend school in Texas. If the Texas schooling systems are underfunded and failing, it is going to take a toll on the US as a whole. In my opinion, teaching is not an easy job, with that being said, you would expect it to be a good-paying job, but it's not. We are losing too many teachers because of that reason. Teachers don't have the right resources or support from their schools/government. It'...

Throughout elementary and middle and high school I only attended public schools. In my elementary school, I only can remember 1 male teacher. His name was Mr.Erickson, and he was my 5th-grade teacher. He and his wife taught together at the school and both my sister had both Mr. and Mrs.Erickson.  I remember him being such an amazing teacher. It really did not seem out of place to me though. Looking back I am more aware that he was one of the only male teachers in the whole school. We always had male principals though.  In the TedTalk by Amber Briggle, she talked about her personal experience with having a transgender son. She talked a lot about how she always knew that she had a son, not a daughter. Transitioning is hard for the child but can also be difficult for the parents. Briggle talked about how at first she still wanted to have her daughter but she could dress differently. She said, “it's easy to make snap judgments and discriminate against an entire group of people tha...

Do I have the full picture? No, I don't think I do but I work every day to try and find pieces of it. I don't think anyone can truly ever have the full picture but is up to us to try and find at least some of it. When I was younger I was in a pretty diverse school but was never directly best friends with someone who was another ethnicity/race than me. Luckily I have never really been around extreme racism of any kind, especially not like Autumn Roberson-Manahan. The sad thing is that people of color are normally deemed as not honest, and abusing the system, they just have a bad image in our society. Why? Is it because in school we are never really told the bad part of history that involved White Males. Is it because the news focuses on people of color who mess up? I think all of it plays a big part. It also makes me sad because it does not and should not matter your race/ethnicity, you are your own person. The majority of the time, white students go to school and feel like it i...

The goal/purpose of public schools is to give everyone equal opportunity to learn and be able to achieve their full potential and be able to participate in future society.  Public schools educate everyone no matter race, gender, or ethnicity. They have all social classes, it does not matter if you are rich or poor, you will be receiving the same education.  M arginalized students are th ose individuals or social groups who, by virtue of their race, gender, or geographical location, have historically been placed on the margins or periphery of the mainstream social and economic hierarchy.   In public schools, I feel like marginalized students are more accepted because everyone is put together in one classroom no matter who they are or where they come from. Empathy i s the ability to understand and share the feelings of someone else. Empathy is a big thing that everyone should have/use especially when it comes to the typically marginalized students.  Yes, th...

Hi, my name is Abbey Mullen, this is my first year at Texas State and I will be graduating in 2 years. I have always wanted to be a teacher. Even from a very young age. My 2nd Grade teacher Mrs.Bryant was where it was sparked. She just had such a loving environment and I realized I wanted to do that for kids, I wanted to be her. One very vivid memory I have of her is one day I walked into class and there was a warm-up on the board, the question was what is a dozen and draw a dozen. I had been in the class but could not remember at all so I went up to her little table and stood next to her while she talked me through it and helped me draw, to this day I will always remember what a dozen is because of how kind she was and how easy it was for her to help me and for me to learn. I used to make my mum take me to the Dollar Tree so I could buy worksheets and classroom things, I set up my own classroom in our playroom and my 2 little sisters were my students. Nothing serious but I just lo...