Brown v Board of Education

 The video that I connected to was the Brown v Board of Education because of my tutoring experienced and what I have witnessed or heard of other kids in the class talk about. What I connected mostly with is when they were talking about how black; Latinos and African American students are less likely to get into a university than whites. They researched it and black students that graduate high school have a 1/5 the change of getting into a selective university than white students; and Latinos have 1/3. College acceptances should not be based on race, because the smartest kids could be of a different ethnicity and the kids of non-color could be the students that do no care about school and are only going because they are forced to go. The kids that may want to learn could be in the lowest performing school that has little resources and the teachers may not care. I see this in the school that I tutor at because most of the kids do really want to learn and some of the teachers just do not give them the time of day or the school provides them with little resources. In the video it talks about how new teachers and not good, untrained teachers are placed in schools that are known as “failure schools” doing this to the students will not further their education, if they even stay in school.

This picture shows the percentage of students Whites vs. Black going to each grade. It is sad to see the percentage of student that are not going to school either because of at home circumstances or they have been told that they are going to get no where in life. Some facts that were surprising to me that they mentioned in the video was that:

1. 70% of African American  students who are eligible based on their PSAT's scores for AP and not one of them has.

2. 1/5 of students in America's first language is not English

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-high-school-graduation-rates-by-race-ethnicity.html this link shows the states and the percentage of what race graduated. For instance in Rhode Island Schools 82% white, 67% hispanic and black, and 79% graduated high school.