History of American Education

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This week was definitely... eye opening as far as my service learning goes. I did that big project I mentioned in my last couple posts. Basically every math student at Lakeridge had to take this math test for the district and then I had to transfer their answers to a bubble sheet. I think I filled in thousands of bubbles over two days of volunteering and I would NOT call it fun. I enjoyed being able to do that for the teacher though.

Because the process was so long, I was there for a lot longer time. I got to sit in on a few classes I hadn't met before and the unique students that came with them. 

Because of that, I got to see something that sort of tied back to our classroom learning. In one of the teachers last periods of the day, her class is (based on my assumptions) predominantly lower income. I asked the teacher what kind of challenges that posed and what she had to do to address them. She told me one of the biggest problems is that the district is moving more and more to homework submitted online and a lot of her students can't afford wifi. Because of that she was able to get laptop computers for her class and she dedicates about twenty minutes at the end of class for them to work on homework. I think this could be because of  Lau v. Nichols in that they shouldn't have less opportunities because of their economic status.

This is also, of course, thanks to the launching of sputnik too. Having satellites and having technology in class as led to some huge advances in equal education. Not only that, but being able to zoom call into class pretty much SAVED everyone's education last year and kept people safe.

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