Chapter 2

 

In As American as Public School, 1900-1950 massive immigration, child labor laws, and the rappid growth of cities fueled school attendance and completely changed public education. It was noted that 51percent of America’s children graduated from high school, and 40 percent went to college. This was one of the running factors that played a huge role in the transformation of schooling. The second chapter in the book also emphasized on the controversial facts about IQ tests on students, life adjustments, curriculum, and politics. While creating the collaborative group assignment during our zoom session, my partners and I came to the realization that many of our agreements, arguments, assumptions and aspirations were very similar when it came to describing the “Why”. In the first section that explained what we all agreed upon we noticed that Elmoatazbellah and I had the same reflection that actually hit home for us because it was a knowledge that we were both brought up with. David on the other hand agreed with the fact that by the 1920’s, the nation seemed to be rushing forward. It was evident that one billion dollars was spent on public education, new highs opened at the rate of one per day. Nonetheless, Kevin's agreement with opposition to testing being used to determine the type of education students were exposed to matches my argument that the test was initially put in place to identify future officers. My first image of choice is a depiction of the growth that fueled school attendance. 


In the choice of disagreement, three of us argued that testing students resulted in them getting lost in the mix. Here we come to understand that it is accurate that schooling is not enough for immigrant students to melt into the culture. In an abundance of times we see students graduate middle school and high school and still not have the ability to speak english, their first language continues to be their only language. In order to become more Americanized and take up the societal norms you must be more involved in the community itself. After ranking our assumptions in order from Elmoatazbellah, to Kevin, to myself and lastly David, It is apparent that all of our assumptions go hand in hand. They speak upon the education children should have had easy access to yet the system failed them. What a coincidence that in all of our assumptions something had to occur in order for there to be difference. Elmoatazbellah in fact had a very insightful assumption, he emphasized on the fact that as the economy became more complex, students stayed in school longer to gain additional skills and knowledge. Sounds like students did this by choice. I think we all generally spoke to aspirations of making education attainable to all and how that goal makes our society better overall. It is amusing that in the end things transitioned for a greater good. It was a necessary change that resulted in a win-win. Not only did schooling transform immigrants, but immigrants also played a huge role in the modification of education. Of them all, the most outstanding statement was “make everything working man a scholar, and every scholar a working man.” I placed my second image above this paragraph because I felt as though it fit right in with the idea that they made education difficult to be attainable to students with different backgrounds. 








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