Racism Effects On Education Essay

Prejudice, racism, discrimination have always been present in society. Combined together, they form one of the most terrible and dreadful ways of treating and thinking about another human being. The effects of these actions and views on individuals have impacted society in an irreparable and tragic way. Judging someone by the color of their skin creates permanent impacts in people’s lives. A consequence caused by that old-fashioned way of thinking and seeing society in general is the effects these views have on black children education: a considerable number of American black children suffer to get a good education since they are in preschool.

That lack and weak basis of education has not only a huge impact on black children’s future professional lives, but also an impact on their mindset and on them as growing and grown-up individuals. Since they don’t get a good education, it is more likely that they won’t succeed in high school, won’t get a good job, won’t build a successful career and won’t evolve their mindset. The majority of black

children and grown-up black adults in America prove that inequality is produced every day in society and it is maintained for a lifetime.
In the world we live in, all individuals are different. Those differences are based on material things, race, gender, culture, among other topics. Education is meant to be a path to opportunity, and public education is meant to ensure society continues to strive for equality. The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights found that black, Latino and Native Americans students have less access to advanced math and science courses and are more likely to be taught by first-year instructors than white students. This shows how black students at pre-K level are already facing unequal treatment from school administrators. They are the living proof that discrimination starts at early stages at life and its consequences remain during a lifetime period.
A change in the education system is obviously essential and urgent.

However, much more than that, a change in society is even more indispensable. The only way of possible making a change in the situation is to make a change in the root of the problem: racism and education. A lot of people still have racism implanted on their heads, and that kind of mentality needs to be modified immediately. And combined to that, a reform in the education system is also needed, in a way that would be equal for everyone, no matter race, sex or age. That change needs to be made before those children grow up because even though a strong educational basis is not a guarantee of success, it is for sure the key for it. Trying to transform the situation after those children become grown-ups is even harder since they would have already spent an enormous part of their life failing because of the lack of knowledge and education they got when

younger.
To give education to these black children is just a step. They still would have to grow in a society where racism is still present in many and various ways. Even if they had a good basis of education, they still would have the chance to have a job denied, receiving critical looks or being treated in a non-respectful way because of the color of their skin. However, even if education was equal for everyone, it’s not a guarantee that those children would achieve success and would live in an equal society.
According to Samuel de Jesus in his ethnography “Black People and Education in Brazil”, the school environment is a place where prejudice is very common, so it is important to think about the mechanisms that can encourage the naturalization of prejudice in these places. Brazilian society is based on racial prejudice; it is fundamental to consider how a slave society. which considers slavery a normal practice, was built on the difference between race and class. If the American society were compared with the Brazilian society, a lot of common and different points would be found. Both societies have prejudice as a common every-day practice, it is so infiltrated that it became normal. For being a developed country, the United States deals better with racial issues because they country has the money and resources necessaries to fight for equality. On the other hand, Brazil, a developing country, is a lot of steps behind the U.S in the fight for equality. However, it is important to note that both societies still have a long way to achieve racial equality.