American School
Throughout history the American school has been developing in many areas. Along these developments come impacts that effect the school system. Including; major welfare, racial segregation, and cultural discrimination.
Impacts in the American School
Many different factors come in to play when you talk about impacts in the American school system. However, welfare, racism, and cultural are the main three. These factors have been a problem since the start of the education system in American.
Major Welfare
In society, poverty has been an issue since the beginning of school. The charity school movement, was made to help get urban street children to stop begging and stealing. During the nineteenth century, it was an attempt to help
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Back then, it was in the form of slavery, hostilities between land, etc. Targeting Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans. Mexican Americans were thought to be an “interior race.” Asian Americans thought they would be able to bring money back home, however, unable to go back home with the little money they had. Only job available at the time was the transcontinental railroad but one-third of the money made from whites. Native Americans were forced to move out of their own land. Stripped of their cultural and forced to learn the Anglo-American cultural. African Americans were brought from Africa and treated as servants. Forced to work on farms, household cooking and cleaning, and sold for money. Puerto Ricans helped the United States in the Spanish-American war and wanted citizenship. They felt forced in to the United States and they did not ask for it at all. (Spring, 2014) Today, racism has developed so much the United States is having many riots and protest. Toppo stated in his article GAO Study that “Percentage of all schools with so-called racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9% to 16%.” This shows that education equality is lacking, you have students from different background in school with no help at all feeling forced to drop out. Some have a lack of money for school and deciding it’s not for them when they aren’t even given an …show more content…
This became a big issue with all cultures in the United States Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, immigrants from Ireland, Southern and Eastern Europe, and Asia. (Spring, 2014) Due to language boundary, immigrants, different cultural ethics. Anglo-American felt they had to protect and show them who has more power. However, with some cultural they receive racism when they show their culture. For example, after 9-11 and ISIS, American Muslims have been facing discrimination with people thinking they could be a terrorist. People discriminate against others because of fear and hatred in