Robert Velardi

Not only did the board of education fire brown, but they took action on his family too.   The board of education fires Brown’s wife, two of sisters, and his niece.   They also burned his house down.   Brown was also a pastor at a church, and they fired him for that, and they also stoned the church, and shot weapons at him.   It really is a shame that Brown had to deal with this at this time.   It goes to show how much religion was involved in the school system. “Though the issue of equal educational opportunity remains serious business, virtually no one today thinks of it as an issue that one might have to die for” (124).   It really is eye-opening to see what people had to deal with back then.   Luckily, we do not have these severe of problems, but we have problems of our own in the school system. African-Americans were discriminated on during this time in the school, and that is why they need protection when they went to school in Little Rock....

When I was in school I never was one of those students that was a fan of standardized testing.   I felt that it was more a test to see if somebody has good test taking skills or not.   It also measured your stamina for taking tests, because these tests were a very long process.   I remember we had to break apart every section with the back of a pencil before we began otherwise the teacher would think that your test has been tampered with.   two things that I had always agreed was were trade schools, and the fact that it allows job security.   I realized that when I graduated high school I would go on to college to eventually get a degree to help secure a job.   Well what I see now that happens to be very common, is that students are exiting college with degrees, but are unable to find jobs.   Not only are they not able to make any money, but some of the students that graduate also have loads of bills to pay from school debt.   I agree with ...