Tale Of Two Schools Analysis

Racism has evolved a long way throughout the timeline, as time passes race still affects opportunity goals and the way students learn. In the article “Schools Need Black Males To Choose Teaching Careers” by Pittsburgh Post and in the video “Tale of Two Schools: Race And Education In Long Island” show a similar relationship/lifestyle between two characters but the differences in schools. In Fences by August Wilson, Cory a young African American male living in a time where race matters more than personality is still receiving the education he needs, but is not able to reach his goals become a football player due to his race. Race can have an negative effect on opportunity because lack of inspirations/role models and job opportunity.

Fences

a play where African Americans were treated like the lowest type of people at the time Troy Maxson a fifty-three-year-old African American who works for the Sanitation Department has always wanted to play in the major leagues but was not allowed to because of the time they live in. Cory the son of Troy enjoys playing Football and wanted to take the step forward and take football as his main courier. This being Troy tries to doubt his son and bring him down to realize that he will get nowhere if he was to continue doing what he wants. Troy has never had a role model to look up to whereas Cory has Jackie Robinson to look up to. These are an example of why race affects a person's personality and what they are trying to achieve. Rose Maxon a forty-three-year-old African American married to Troy is a housewife and a church volunteer. Rose requests Troy to build a fence in her house to keep her loved ones safe and protected. The fact that Cory wants to play football does not bother her and instead supports him more than his father.

In the video Tale of Two Schools:Race And Education In Long Island, both students are similar in many ways, yet the schools are far apart and teach differently but the two students still manage to be similar and have good grades.

David a Senior that goes to a not so wealthy school gets good grades and has friends. But because of where he lives and the amount of African Americans in his school, he has less technical hands on items to use such as a computer, ipad or Smartboards. David’s classes are also very small. Owen on the other hand goes to a good school with more a percentage of whites than African Americans. Owen’s school has more advanced technology and his class is very well organized with more hands on activities. David’s school barely has enough money to do fundraisers so they take gain money from taxes to do these activities. Many of the teachers are not as well educated as the school with a higher percentage than African American. In Owen’s school you can tell that the teachers are more into their jobs than the ones at David’s

school.

Despite all this Owen and David are very similar.

They both work at Carvel and are A+ students. David and Owen both plan on being a bigger person in the future and help out the community. David's mother barely has enough mother and son time with him because she has 2 jobs and is always at work when he is home and when she has free time, David is at school. This is telling us that African Americans have it harder on the gaining side than white do. Owen on the other hand gets to spend more time with family, his parents do not have any debts. his neighborhood is safer and wealthier. This is also an example of opportunity cost. Even though David does not have a African American role model he does look after some other people that make him want to be an inspiration.

In Schools Need Black Males To Choose Teaching Careers Pittsburg asked a question to the students, “how many planned to go to college” and all the students raised their hand, but when he asked “how many planned to go into education” no one raised their hand. By seeing this we can already tell that there is a problem in society. That problem is the lack of role models. Sense there are rarely any African Americans males it makes it seem as if teaching was a “woman's” job. If the number of male African Americans increased there will be an increase of the amount of African Americans willing to become

teachers.

In conclusion Race can have a negative effect on opportunity because lack of inspirations/role models, job opportunity and unequal education. The characters Tory and Cory both were brought down and their dreams were crushed due to what their skin tone is. Although Cory did have a role model to want to do the things he wanted, Tory did not have anyone to look up to. Owen and David both had a similar motive, but two completely different lives. One had it rough and the other had it easy. But continuing in like and looking at the bigger picture they will both manage to get the places they want in life but with more of a harder time getting there.