Class Dismissed and The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies
For this blog post, I will be touching on two things assigned to us this week. An excerpt from the film Class Dismissed which can be watched here , and the research review entitled, The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies . I would like to start with the short video first. This video starts by discussing how children going to school for learning is fairly new for us as a society. Children used to be homeschooled by their mothers, but when Massachusetts’ first Department of Education made it so children from the age of four to 16 had to attend school regularly, things changed. They were taught to be on time, to listen to authority and many other things that would make them ideal workers and military personnel. This was during the industrialization of our country, so the government wanted children to learn how to be productive members of the cha...