Multiculturalism in Schools

The thing that i can remember about culturalism being taught in school was just events that took place during black history month. Now all major minorities in our country are trying to get times of the year set aside to remember their heritage. Like i said last week this is not multiculturalism. One of the articles discussed the difference in curriculums in school. It discussed that cosmopolitanism was teaching about all cultures as they fit into the curriculum. Ethic loyalist believe these times of the year where their culture is set aside and discusses is vital for their history. I agree with the view of the cosmopolitanism. Each culture and outstanding people from each culture should be recognized, but just as they fit into curriculums. If each culture gets a separate time to be remembered, then it will further set back each individual cultures from other ones. Another article entitled Multiculturalism in School Environments agrees with my point on the view of how to handle the history of each culture in the classroom. This argument will continue for many years because the debates get more and more heated every year that these events happen.

Ignorance about Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is made up of three parts. Multi means "having many." Culture means "the way of life of a certain people in a certain time." Ism means "the belief" or "the act or result of." So multiculturalism means the act of having many different ways of life of different people. There is no bias to this at all. This is straight forward; there is no debate. Wait a minute, all these authors either have a biased opinion or are writing about biased opinions. One writes about how wrong some people are for trying to teach history that's not from a certain point of view. History is history. This is not a point of view. History is about exactly what happened, not how somebody feels about something that has happened. Multiculturalism is about people that have different ways of life or different backgrounds living together in a close area. It's about getting along with all these cultures not just about making one seem the most important. I'm getting tired of listening to the way people feel instead of the things are. Maybe if people would look at the large picture of the world instead of just looking in their own corner they might get an idea of the facts not just their opinions.

Evolution and Atheism as Religion Wins Again

I couldn't open up the article from the Library of Congress so i'm just going to refer to the religion in schools debate article. A judge in Illinois ruled that the moment of silence law the state had established was unconstitutional. What a surprise. A law that had students be quiet for one minute was ruled unconstitutional because somebody might pray during it. This law does not force students to pray; it just forces them to be quiet for one minute. Chalk another point up for the religion of atheism. They're afraid if people think, they might actually question their atheistic views. I'm totally against taking this moment away from students. It teaches them they will not have even a minute during their day to stop, relax, and think. The next part of this article discusses the teaching of evolution in the curriculum. Here's another example of a religion being taught in schools that is being overlooked. The belief in evolution is a religion. The ACLU of course doesn't understand that. They just make sure that Christianity is restrained. If Christianity is going to be restrained in schools, then all religions need to be restrained. No more biases. No more excuses. I'm not asking that Christianity be taught in schools, just that the other religions are not either.

Innovators and "Makers" of public schools

Each of these innovators had a large impact on the development of our public education system today. Although some of them had a bigger impact on the system, they all had a positive effect on the way our schools are run. From improving teachers to building better school buildings to finding ways to effectively manage schools and classrooms, these people made their marks on our educational system. The makers portion of these i think did have an impact, but i think a lot of the information in that website was misconstrued by the maker of the website and the writer of the book.

The biggest innovator or public schools listed in this site is obviously Horace Mann. Although he was not an educator, he could see the need to improve our our public schools. He saw the need to lengthen the school year to longer than just during the winter. He also saw the need to train and pay teachers better so they could educate students to a higher level. The school buildings he also saw needed improving. He developed the state board of education in Massachusetts and became the secretary of it. During his time there he successfully pushed for a 6 month school year, teacher training facilities, and money for higher teacher pay, school supplies, and school construction. This movement eventually moved on through the rest of the states in the country.

The maker i will choose is Henry Ford. He is the king of making things more efficient; his assembly line showed this. Although he probably had an effect on better efficiency in education i do not think he negatively influenced it.

The differences in innovators and makers were the way they affected education. Innovators directly affected education by making obvious improvements on things were run in schools. Makers passively influenced education by how they expected their employees to act and work while on the job. The information presented about the makers in this website is totally misconstrued.