The rest of the film was really interesting to watch, especially given the experiences I have had in Mississippi. As the film mentioned, in 1954 schools were supposed to integrate, although many did not comply with these rules. In Natchez, Mississippi, a result of integration was that the wealthy white people (which were basically most if not all of the white people) decided to take their children out of the public school system and put them in private schools. Still today, most of the students in the Natchez Public Schools are black, while most of the students in private schools are white. Sixty years after integration, these schools are basically still segregated.
During our small group discussion, Marilee brought up a good point that it seemed like Lareau was bringing up an “attitude of compliance” in her article - parents are told to come in for open-house and parent-teacher conferences and to volunteer in the classroom. The parents who “comply” with this are thought of as the “good” parents, while those who don’t, are often looked at as the parents who aren’t involved in their children’s education. Although there may be parents who don’t value education as much as others, we cannot assume that the parents who aren’t as involved simply don’t care. There are so many outside factors involved in this, that we must be creative in our ways to get parents involved, as we discussed in our Do Now for the day.
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