Structural Racism

There is such a broad explanation when describing the definition of success. People from different cultures and backgrounds have very different outlooks on life and that’s great. However, when it comes down to the education system in the United States it’s very hard to please everyone. Because the United States is full of different peoples, succeeding in the education system is easy and sometimes degrading. The goal for school systems today is to help kids graduate. Students are required to have 4 math and english credits, 3 science, and extr..Unfortunately the quality of the classes may alter a student’s ability to be “successful”. This can be based on many factors one being structural racism. Structural racism is society playing out their …show more content…
In class we read an article about the different classes of society and the different types of education. There was the working class school, the middle class, the affluent middle class and the elite. The main difference between all of the schools was the attitude behind success. Each school was obviously placed on different parts of town. Students who had parents who worked as skilled laborers went to the working class school. In this school an observer saw that the students were taught rules. Follow these rules and you will succeed. Success to them was doing what their parents did. They weren’t taught to open their minds to different possibilities, they weren’t taught creativity or critical thinking. In the middle class school, students were taught similarly to the working class. Follow these rules and don’t ask questions. You won’t need to ask questions. There was no second way to do things. The affluent elite class had creativity and lots of extracurriculars. These students were allowed room to grow. The teachers encouraged the students to think outside of the box. They had to learn independence as well as working in teams. In the elite schools these students are very similar to what the affluent schools offered the only difference is the students are taught to make direct decisions. After all, they are going to be chief executives and corporate leaders. These are four different ways success is offered. It seems to me that success is accomplishing what everyone else accomplishes in the

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