The purpose of this research paper will focus on the effects the “pay to play” rules are having on its constituents. Specifically one will focus on the way these newly adopted policies are affecting families, primarily African American kids that are living below the poverty line. Furthermore this research will display trends that are resulting in light of these guidelines. Overall, one desires to show that while requiring kids to pay fees to play sports may help the fiscal budget and be a short-term solution, that will ultimately lead to drastic long-term effects within urban America, mainly amongst the African American
Sports television has an adverse influence on black male youth, particularly those who come from low income households. The media glorifies professional athletes and gives these youngsters a false sense of upward mobility and success through sports while minimalizing academic performance and hard work. According to Jeffery Bierman in his award winning paper The Effect of Television Sports Media on Black Male Youth the media presents unrealistic aspirations of job opportunities for impressionable black youths and “creates a false sense of potential career success” (1) which motivates and encourages these young males to focus on athletics and not academics. Some of the reasons why sports television has a huge impact on black male youth are because blacks living in poverty tend to watch more television than their white counterparts and they also watch more shows or events that showcase black people. Blacks are more likely to watch sports because there is a large representation of them and they are shown in a positive, glamorous and respectful image.
Gillborn and Youdell (2000) found that teachers expected black pupils to present more discipline problems and misinterpreted their behaviour as threatening or as a challenge to authority. When teachers acted on this misperception, pupils would respond negatively leading to further conflict. Black pupils felt that the teachers underestimated their ability and picked on them. Therefore, according to Gillborn and Youdell much of the conflict between white teachers and black pupils
Is it just a compilation of slang and jargon? Furthermore, can this pattern of speech be used to improve the educational experience for the inner city African American youth? Despite the opinions which are constantly being argued, one fact remains: A learning environment that lacks a clear line of communication between teacher and student will fail to properly educate the majority of the learners. Some level of communication has to be established before effective teacher-student interaction can occur. Teachers must understand their students.
In turn, black pupils felt teachers underestimated their ability and picked on them. Gilborn and Youdell conclude that much of the conflict between white teachers and black pupils stem from the racial stereotypes that teachers hold, rather than the pupil’s actual behaviour. This disadvantages pupils because they are treated differently, which could result in their failure and even exclusion from school. As Jenny Bourne 1994) found that schools tend to see black boys as a threat and label them
Assess sociological explanations for ethnic differences in achievement. (20 Marks) There are many reasons for ethnic differences in achievement, it’s been found that Indian and Asian pupils achieve higher than White, African-Caribbean, and Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi pupils. One possible cause of ethnic differences in education is labeling, sociologist Gillborn found that teachers would label and therefore discipline black pupils quicker than other pupils which would do the same things and this would create a self fulfilling prophecy of the teachers thinking that black pupils would misbehave and do poorly and the pupils would accept that and with the extra lack of teacher help and increased discipline would therefore fail. Gillborn and Youdell think that this is because teachers label black pupils as being more likely to cause problems and rebel, with the teachers labeling the black pupils like this it makes them feel picked on and that the teachers underestimated them. Another result of the negative labeling of black pupils is the higher exclusion rate and the higher chances of black pupils to be put in sets below their actual abilities, which can only lead those black pupils to underachieve.
Even though this quotation is a major source in the ills of the African American community we lack of knowledge of our history. I think we must begin by respecting and educating ourselves. Every successful person should be able to know the history of his past in order to educate his children
Dubois’s solution is that African Americans must constantly fight and argue for what they desire in order to ever gain their rights (Doc E). Education was an issue amongst blacks and whites. Although school enrollment rates increased from roughlt 0% to 50%, between 1860 and 1925, there were higher illiteracy rates amongst blacks for their education was still below whites. Washington though if black focused on advancing economically they would eventually receive the rights they deserved. He supported trade schools such as Tuskegee that would teach trades.
Jon Davis Eng 101 Dr. Stevens 2/13/2012 What can a young African-American become after graduating from college? A few will say a teacher, some will say a lawyer but the majority will say a professional athlete. In the article “Delusions of Grandeur”, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explains why most African-Americans choose to be professional athletes instead of a more realistic and beneficial option. He argues that the public school system, media and society in general is to blame. Gates maintains that these entities should stop using young African-Americans as “gladiators” to entertain the masses.
Any country that conquest another country has to impose it culture by obligating its language, religion, and traditions to fully conquest the other country. To many people from the dependent country, it is hard to learn the language imposed because of the lack of good education and experience. The dominant society may think that because of their anatomy or their race they are not able to do so. In the text “Black Children are Verbally Deprived” by Walt Wolfram, the author explains how the North American society supposes that African American has a different English speech because the segregation and the poor education they have had. Nowadays, Puerto Ricans are having the same problems as the African Americans did before with the North Americans in terms of the use of English.