Blog Post 6 (02/20/22)

Hello,

After reading, listening to the podcasts, and understanding the power points for the week, I have a grasp on white privilege and educational inequality. This was shown quite well in the NPR podcast called "Why Busing Did Not End School Segregation." It was a podcast explaining a desegregation program in the Boston area to bus children from underprivileged locations to more privileged location for schooling. This was and still is a debated topic with many different views. Regardless, this system would not have to be in place is schooling was equal around the areas but unfortunately this is still not true. This shows the white privilege and inequality relation because the schools the busses are taking the children to are in white suburban areas with a nice education. A benefit for the white families in the educational system is that they do not have to worry as much about a quality education in a simple proximity that the black families must worry about.

Affirmative action is set of laws and policies to protect the ones fighting for the underrepresentation in education and jobs. The purpose of it is and was for fighting purposes and being able to fight the governing bodies if an equal action is not given. The cons about the affirmation action can be costly, unfair, and frustration. This can be because you must fight if you find yourself in this type of situation as they stated in the article by the Atlantic called "Affirmation Action Should Not Be About Diversity." As stated in the article white privilege still plays into the protests against affirmative action in situations such as college admissions. Underprivileged students might be able to achieve the education until college admissions due to the low percentages taken for minorities or the fact that they are only taken because they are a minority. These are the unfortunate realities of affirmative action.


Reference List:

Atkins, N.D. (2021). HDFS 280: Defining Family & Diversity [Lecture notes Week 5]. Retrieved from                       http://mycourses.purdue.edu

Cornish, A. (2016, October 6). Why busing didn't end school segregation. NPR. Retrieved February 16, 2022, from https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/06/496411024/why-busing-didnt-end-school-segregation

Reyes, K. (2018, December 27). Affirmative action shouldn't be about diversity. The Atlantic. Retrieved February 16, 2022, from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/affirmative-action-about-reparations-not-diversity/578005/

Sensoy, & DiAngelo, R. J. (2017). Is everyone really equal? : an introduction to key concepts in social         justice education (Second edition.). Teachers College Press.

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