Discrimination In School Discrimination

I think that little kids don’t know what racism is, but their parents are the ones that raise them the way they are, being racist. How can we tell when kids are being racist? Well because you see kids at school and they have their own little groups with their own race. Whites with whites, blacks with blacks, Latinos with Latinos, etc. A lot of little kids don’t like playing with kids of a different race, we see that in places like daycare or preschool.

When young children do express thoughts of race or being bias, it is often dismissed as either bad parenting, child not knowing what they are talking about, or simply bad behavior in children. Research clearly shows that children not only recognize race from a very young age, but also develop racial biases by age’s three to five that do not necessarily resemble the racial attitudes of adults in their lives (Aboud 2008). Three- to five-year-olds in a racially and ethnically diverse day care center used racial categories to identify themselves and others, to include or exclude children from activities, and to negotiate power in their own social/play networks (Van Ausdale & Feagin 2001).

Colorblindness is a defect in the perception of colors, caused by a deficiency in specialized cells in the retina that are sensitive to different colors. The term is often used today during political discourse, often by members of some factions of liberalism, when claiming that one’s race should be irrelevant to any decision making process. It is a form of moral posturing; that one should see an individual as simply an individual, but not as part of any larger group or culture. As if this philosophy will enable us to bridge any gaps between races, this thought attempts to focus on how we are all the same, rather than how we differ. Teachers and administrators are required to complete coursework pertaining to multicultural education

A popular notion says a child is born “color-blind” and remains color-blind until they reach adolescence. The problem with this concept is that people believe it to be a positive idea. However, it actually presents a damaging ideology – it suggests that race should not be a factor when trying to determine the type of person an individual is. I see it as an unsophisticated approach to view people because race is a vital part of our existence. Race is an attribute that makes individuals differ from one another, and the problem is not the differences in the colors of our skin. The problem is that we attempt to detach ourselves from the reality of being racially different. Racism will seem to inevitably exist, and in order to even try to end the malice, parents should begin teaching children about racism the right way.

It is clear that the reasoning behind the color-blind parenting approach can be argued and in this case proven to be unrealistic expectations that do no match reality. But why does this matter? Is it really that big of a deal if white children learn about race from social media and believe that race does not affect them? Yes, because in our current day and age, race issues have not gone away, and do not seem to be going away anytime soon. The book “The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide” is written entirely about how even after hundreds of year, America still has an astonishing racial wealth divide, this book even states “for every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family

School institutional racism is in the form of teachers, resources and harsher punishment that potentially leads to school- to- prison pipeline towards blacks and minorities starting at a young age. Low income neighborhoods have a higher population of blacks and other minorities, and since those neighboring schools are funded through property taxes these schools are extremely underfunded, understaffed, and lack the resources needed to properly provide these students with the education they need. As stated in the article by Myles Moody, “This current system is set up to fail Black Children (Moody, 2016).” Most teachers who are employed in these low income schools may employ inexperience teachers who lack the ability and experience to bond with their students and their cultural needs (Moody, 2016). This lack of bonding is developed because there is a lack of congruency between the students and the staff. The teachers also lack the experience to also build a good rapport with their students’ parents; therefore, there is a high level of mistrust towards teachers that directly impact the students’ level of education (Moody, 2016). When the teacher, student and parent develop a good relationship with one another, the teacher is more inclined and comfortable to report to the parent any possible behavioral or learning discrepancies

When discussing race, having the right intention is not nearly enough to ensure progress in racial tensions; as such, only positive, tangible action can be the catalyst for change in race discourse. This general rule can help when looking at the concept of colorblindness as a supposedly well-meaning myth, which realistically only serves to continue racist attitudes and systems. Using a critical lens to determine the harm caused by colorblindness can diminish the impact and eventually eradicate a source of racist microagressions. Patricia Williams explores the inherently harmful idea of colorblindness in her book Seeing a Colorblind Future: The Paradox of Race, through exemplary anecdotal evidence. This paper aims to analyze one such anecdote to fully explain the pervasive and malicious way colorblindness is employed in everyday life.

A child's curiosity can cost them to lose their innocence when they are confronted with racist life issues.

Studs Terkel (1980) relates C. P. Ellis' story about how his experiences organizing a union opened his eyes about how corporations treat minorities, and resulted in a new understanding of the people around him even though he was a former Klansman. I have never been in the Klan or organized a union, but a similar turning point for me came for me when I saw the movie "The Eye of the Storm," about Jane Elliot's experiment with white schoolchildren in Riceville, Iowa. This experiment demonstrated to me how children respond to cultural cues first from their parents and family members, but then through the institutions they are forced to participate in like school; the church; other families and supervisory agencies. If even white children can be taught to discriminate against other white children on something as arbitrary and insubstantial as eye color, then how easy it must be to train them to respond in denigrating ways to people with different skin color, body shapes or language for example, I realized. This changed my perspective on racism and ethnicity and while I have since done much research and believe education is the secret, the way I have decided to implement change in my own life, is to speak out when I hear someone making a denigrating comment.

Some People tend to laugh and feed on putting someone down based on their race and some may not even know they are being racist at all. The fact is that your behavior towards someone can be racist even when you may be “Joking” or “Messing around.” The matter of fact is the racial comments were still made and still have a hurtful message. In the essays we read we were given a real life example of how even unintentional racial comments can still be harmful to someone and shouldn’t be used as a cultural norm. One imperative stride to lessening the racist culture in America is to incorporate educational programs for our youth to show them that we are all created equal and racism has no place in our society. These measures can help raise equality and counter the impacts of any prejudice or dogmatism that happens in the children’s homes by helping them see and comprehend what generalizations and racism are and that they ought to be stayed away from. The adults and leaders in the lives of the youngsters are the illustrations that the kids look up to and will determine how they will act when they are older. By instructing the kids at a young age about the threats of generalization and racism, we can limit the transference of bigotry to the future

She examines the colorblind approach to reaching a post-racial society. Using a very simple, yet elegant way of writing, Bostick clearly states that she believes this ideology is ineffective and does more harm than good. She supports her claim by referencing a recent tragedy concerning racism -- the death of Philando Castille, a black man from Minnesota. With a strong appeal to logos, Bostick discusses how this would have been less likely to happen if Castille was a white man. Through this evidence, Bostick is able to easily exemplify how taking a colorblind approach to racism avoids addressing social issues and oppression that people of color face. Bostick also addresses the damage that can be done by teaching children to be blind to race, saying that teaching people to not see color is essentially “stripping people of a fundamental aspect of their identity” and erases their history (par. 7). This text would be helpful in realizing that “acknowledging differences is not racist; it is the opposite of racist” and also in exploring the flaws with the colorblind ideology, as its effectiveness can be related to recent events surrounding the Black Lives Matters movement and issues with police brutality (par.

Cultural racism – a frame that relies on culturally based arguments such as “Mexicans do not put much emphasis on education” or “blacks have too many babies” to explain the standing of minorities in society. This puts stereotypes on Students of Color, using phrases like that to justify why minorities can't learn is not only racist but absolutely false. In the documentary Teach Us All it talks about the rate at which Latinx students drop-out, it was said the “We don’t drop out we are pushed out” This reasoning is very biased in the way that compares the experiences of Blacks to other minorities before the Colorline was in their favor. The Color line was drawn to include those ethnic groups this allows them to take on whiteness a reap the benefits of being a White American. American I am interested in how Colorblind ideology and all four of the frames are having a negative impact the education of the African-American youth in America.This is a major issue in our society because the large majority of the teachers are white and those teachers in an effort to not be racist will likely conform to the Colorblind ideology values. Bonilla-Silva wrote a book titled Racism without Racist which spoke about the dangers of this new and hidden form of racism. For example, Silva describes how Colorblind ideology is affecting our education system, “Colorblindness, rather than a problem, is often aspired to by new teachers who equate seeing a race with being racist” (Glazier, 2003). My final paper will dive deeply into the effects Colorblind Ideology has affected our education system.I want it to look at how it has been used throughout the USA and how it affects our identity as black people. I think I will find many people being deceived by this form of racism since it doesn't seem harmful. This paper will be a very strong work of literature because I won't’ shy away from the truth and will be as

Author of the magazine article “Understanding Unconscious Bias and Unintentional Racism,” Jean Moule elaborates on this issue; “An example is Steele and Aaronson’s (1995) work on stereotype threat, in which the performance of African American students in a testing situation was cut in half by asking them to identify their race at the start of the test” (Moule 1). Performance levels significantly dropped as children were faced with the reality that their level of intelligence would be based on their race. When presented a question that judges one due to the color of their skin, one becomes unmotivated and realizes that a system made to educate is, perhaps unintentionally, being racist. White children have not dealt with problems such as these, being deemed superior in the education system since the segregation of whites and blacks began. The presence of a racial bias is

Growing up in America, it is not uncommon for people of color to experience racism. Although there is a wide spread of areas people face this inequality, children and young adults spend most of their time at school. Therefor racism in the learning environment has an extreme impact. A Huffington Post article talks about this racism and the different levels children will face while growing up. This article begins by stating that a great number of people, like academic John McWhorter and Harvard professors William Julius Wilson and Roland Fryer, believe that racism has declined tremendously or that it is gone entirely (Cokley, 2016). This article explains why racism is not dead, but instead thriving and a part of millions of black Americans’ lives

Patricia Williams testimony demonstrates the negative impact the color blind ideology can have on others, in this case her son. The “color makes no difference” statement that the teachers were declaring formed a resistance in her son when identifying colors. This ideology shapes how people understand different races consequently letting racial matters be ignored and avoided. This ideology is indeed problematic is it impacts the way people respond to situations and events. Race must be taken into account in order to address issues of race. Without it, there will be a misunderstanding of, racial hostility, discrimination and other issues. Without it, they will continue to go consciously unnoticed and unsolved.