Blog 7

This week in class we covered segregation inside education.  We looked at ways to solve the problem that is going on with segregation inside education and what would be the best way to go about doing that.  We started discussing this by presenting that not all schools are made up of same race, nor class.  The main factor of what class and race makes up a school is its location.  Races and class in schools is directly based of the race and class that surround the area where the school is located.  A school located in a rich white neighborhood is likely to have low class minorities in that school and vise versa a school located in the projects is not going to have rich white kids attending that school.  This plays a huge role in the education part.  The class, race, and location of the school usually determines the quality of the education that is provided at the school.  In a better part of the city the education is likely to be better than a school in the projects.  This happens due to the amount of resources school like that have.  The race and class of a school also plays a large part in the education by who attends that school.  Numbers show that in schools with a lower class and more minorities attending have lower test scores.

Below I have posted an article from the Washington Post explaining some of the reasons I talked about above.  It also states ways and steps that may be taken to help strive for a more all around equal education and a way to help fix segregation in education.  I hope you read it and find some of the ways interesting as I did and see if you can see the ways projected in the article will actually help.

http://schottfoundation.org/drupal/media-center/why-education-inequality-persists-and-how-to-fix-it

Blog 6

The past week in class we talked about minimum wage and jobs worth there wages.  During class we watch a film about janitors and their jobs at universities.  This film was very interesting and gave an overall good point of view.  The movie looked at different janitors at different colleges.  The film showed each janitor at their job and also presented us with information about what happened in their lives before they became janitors at the colleges.  The most important view that I believe was presented from this film was the fact that each one of these janitors loved their jobs.  They didn't care that they had to clean up after students because they felt that the positive part of the job which differed from each person was way more rewarding than any of the stuff they had to do during the job.  Some people in todays society look down on people in positions like janitors but this film showed that these people didn't care what others thought as long as they loved what they were doing.  I believe that this is the most important thing that matters when considering a career.  I don't believe in going into a career or job just because your are told to by people like your parents or because the pay is good but rather because you want to do that job and like that job.  I believe that if more people looked at careers this way people wouldn't be looking down on each other like they are now and minimum wage would increase.  People doing their jobs would be happier and just make the overall job force happier and not have people hate their jobs.  This would also help people to not look down on others when doing their jobs because they would know that they are doing that job because they want to.

Below I have posted a article from Forbes about careers and workers at Wal-Mart.  This article can me argued either way.  The article presents information that relates to workers wanting to work their that's the reason why there are so many applicants and people trying to apply there.  But then farther down in the article it provides information that people are applying there because they pay more than other jobs of the same work.  So here's the article and ill let you decide what really happening. 
 http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/11/27/why-do-1-4-million-americans-work-at-walmart-with-many-more-trying-to/  

Blog 5

In class this week we talked about race and the various stereotypes associated with different ethnic groups.  A stereotype is a image or description that one group or groups of people give a different group of people that are a different race or ethnicity.  A stereotype can either be positive or negative.    Every race has its own stereotypes that are associated with it.  For example the terms druggies and criminals are all stereotypes that people give to blacks.   One stereotype that most people would associate with black people is that they are all athletic.  Stereotypes can pretty much be any image that one race sees a different race or ethnicity.  Most people associate stereotypes with negative images or description.  Some stereotypes are given to races because of how some members of their race act or present themselves.  An example of this would be the song Young Wild and Free by Wiz Khalifa.  The song is about doing drugs and living a good life.  People hear songs like this and that's why they put these stereotypes on certain races.  These types of stereotypes are not fair to everyone that is in the race that is being stereotyped but thats how our culture works and how people associate stereotypes to certain groups. 


I have listed the link to the below to the song incase you have never heard it.  


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa5B22KAkEk

Blog 4

I'm going to be writing about a privilege that I have the chance to experience.  This privilege is college.  I come from a family where no buddy went to college.  My family believes in working and working hard for what you have so everyone in my family once graduated from high school went straight into the working field.  Most of them end up in factories or construction which both types of job take a toll on your body and are not much fun to work.  My parents gave me the privilege to enter college as they didn't want me to end up living the life they have.  They want me to come to school and earn a education so I can get a good job.  They told me as long as I come to school and apply myself to my school work and doing good in school I can stay in school.  I feel really privileged to be given the chance to go to college and get an education so I don't have to work a job like the rest of my family.  Most students that are in college don't see college as a privilege like I do because other members in their family have went and see it as a right and don't see it in the way I do.  With me have this privilege like this it teaches me to take nothing for granted and be thankful for what I have and the chance I get to do things.