https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp en-us 2019-04-13 04:25:59 UTC 2019-04-13 05:00:39 UTC hello@padlet.com kruiz38 https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351347510 As I learned from going to a district's school board meeting, public funds are very important to schools. Just like anything in this world, money unlocks a lot of opportunities. The Kalamazoo case made it legal for high schools to use tax dollars to help fund themselves. Without money, schools would crumble. This case helped established a way for the infrastructure of the school to be supported. It makes perfect sense that the citizens in a city should have their tax dollars go to help support the local schools. ]]> 2019-04-13 04:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351347510 kruiz38 https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351347897 As much of a bad rap NCLB gets from educators because of its creation of teaching to test, I did have a lot of good intentions and did some good. The reason why this is very important is because it finally made schools notice the students who were falling behind. It forced schools to figure out ways to reach these students and to acknowledge that some of the teaching strategies were not good. It made the forgotten become remembered. This is a very important thing. No school or teacher should ever ignore the struggling students and try to sweep them under the rug.]]> 2019-04-13 04:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351347897 kruiz38 https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351348067 Before Horace Mann's Common School, schools were really only for the rich. Boys would get majority of the schools and girls would get enough schooling so that they could function fine in society. But the poor and especially minorities were pushed out of education. The formation of the Common School was Mann's attempt at making it possible for all children to come to school and learn in the same place regardless of economics and race. This was a big step in education for someone to push to have an end of segregation. Even though this movement was fought hard especially by those in the South, it was a big step in the right direction.]]> 2019-04-13 04:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351348067 kruiz38 https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351348084 English Language Learners are ever present in schools. To think that there was a time when schools and teachers could ignore these students' needs and not face any punishment is absurd. This court case made sure that ELLs were protected under the Civil Rights Act and thus got equitable rights in school. To push down a large population of students because of their language is just another form of racism and discrimination that needed to be fixed. It is good that now teachers get special training on how to work with ELLs and to help build their skills.]]> 2019-04-13 04:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351348084 kruiz38 https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351348089 This is the Supreme Court case that struck down the nationwide segregation laws. It looked at Plessy v. Ferguson and said that separate was not equal. The case also looked heavily on how minority schools were far inferior not only in looks but in teaching staff, and in the content that was being taught. In the first large step in forcing the South to abandon the deep racism that was thriving there and began chipping away at other Jim Crow Laws. Without this case, segregation would have had to been challenged in each state and done away with on the state level. ]]> 2019-04-13 04:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351348089 kruiz38 https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351348099 This is a court case that has been vastly overlooked throughout history but it actually is extremely important when it comes to education. The quick backstory is that Sylvia Mendez was denied entry into an Orange County school because she was Hispanic. She was forced to go to an all Hispanic school which were extremely dirty and taught students to be maids. Her parents sued the Westminster school district and won. This prompted the governor of California to pass a law that ended segregation in all California schools. There's more. Different organizations were helping with this case like the ACLU and were using it as a test. The lawyers representing Brown in Brown v. Board used the briefs from the Mendez case to craft their argument. Everything learned from the Mendez case was applied to Brown v. Board. Also, it is important to note the Chief Justice on the Supreme Court was the ex California governor who had passed the law to end school segregation in that state. ]]> 2019-04-13 04:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kruiz38/6flj31ge05fp/wish/351348099