The development of the citizens in a society is greatly influenced by the quality of education. Each person is entitled to a quality education that will equip him for his future and the future of his society.
The quality of education can say a lot about the success of man. The society, as the greatest influencer of its citizens, should be able to facilitate the best education quality that schools can provide. At the end of the day, all the success achieved by the citizens will be given back to the society through development and breakthroughs.
The society has the greatest influence to its citizens in terms of education. Man’s fate can be remarkably rooted from the quality of education he earned during his formative years.
To-date, racial discrimination still exists particularly in public schools hence, this has become one of the issues of quality of education. Among the ones being discriminated are the African American race whose rights and privilege seem to have been embargoed. Sadly, it is not only the students in the minority group who encounter discrimination at school, even the educators are being singled out. The status of the education system starts to get shaken at school stakeholders not gaining equal treatment.
Racial discrimination is one of the diseases which gradually cripple the education quality in public schools in the country. Public schools which do not implement sincere fairness in the system are the ones who, most likely, worsen the problem of discrimination. Ironically, the academic institutions, which are supposed to inculcate good morals, are guilty of unfair treatment among its constituents. All African American members of several academic institutions experience discrimination—students and educators.
Despite years of battle for equality, racial discrimination is still one of the common crises in the public schools of the country. Sad but true, for the longest time, the minority group such as the African American race is still in battle for their rights and privilege as citizens of the country. Both the non-white students and teachers are subject to discrimination in almost all public schools. Influential institutions such as public schools are not able to resolve the problem on racial discrimination, hence the issue worsens all the more.
The primary reason for African American and other minority students to perform poorly in school is inferiority complex. It becomes automatic to students’ perception that non-white races are weak and are not entitled to the rights they are exercising. Hence, African American students and the like, choose to stay in their shell to shield themselves from rejection. Much to the amusement of many, researches in the past showed that minority students can perform equally well with white students only when tests were done at their respective homes. Tests administered at school yielded a much higher disparity in favour of the white students. These test results simply show that discrimination principally impedes the learning opportunities of students belonging to the minority group.
Based on studies results in the past, African American students and those who belong to the minority group did not excel in academics as the effect of discrimination in the campus. Discrimination locked minority students in their shell until the victory of the first black president. Studies conducted on the performance of home-schooled students through standardized tests showed that the minority group did equally well with the whites. However, when the same tests were administered to the students in public schools, there was a great disparity between the grades of the whites and the minority group. Clearly, a difference in the environment greatly affects the learning pace of the students.
Fear of being humiliated and rejected is the root of the diffidence of minority students in school. Instead of developing self esteem and confidence at school, these are not seemingly enhanced. Speaking their minds out means a possibility of being mocked, laughed at, and rejected; hence they stay inferior. In a past study conducted to assess the success performance of home-schooled students, it was found out that minority students played equally well with the whites. Academic performance of white students was better off than that of the non-whites in the public school setting. This goes to show that the environment for learning has a significant impact and influence on students; and discrimination plays a crucial role.
Discrimination does not only happen with minority students, even educators are deliberately rejected and humiliated, just like the retrenchment that occurred in a public school. (Un)intentionally, the present administration’s turnaround plan in public education “streamlined” the African American veteran educators, but surprisingly replaced them with younger whites.
African American educators also experience the same discrimination but on the level of employment. A group of veteran educators in Chicago was removed from work because of the administration’s turnaround plan in public schools. However, to much of their surprise, their replacements were younger white teachers whose skills were apparently below par.
Both students and educators who belong to the minority race experience discrimination in the school. Recently, in a public school in Chicago, numerous veteran educators were retrenched because of the alleged turnaround plan of the present administration. Call it coincidence, the educators laid off were African American, and were replaced by younger white teachers.
How can the public school administrators handle this issue of racial discrimination?
Is there a chance for this long-time overdue racial issue to get solved?
The minority groups in the public education can still stand up and fight for the rights taken away from them since the time of their predecessors.
The best way to dart the problem head on is adopting a learning management system or LMS. An LMS, software, can assist public schools in tracking, delivering, and managing education and training in the web. It can answer administrative undertakings of schools such as record-keeping, online training and discussions, and many more. Can LMS really help eradicate discrimination in public schools? LMS is web-based, hence, students no longer need to go to the classroom physically to attend to class. This means that the chance of an African American student of being bullied or intimidated in schools will slim down, if not totally cut off. The online set up will stimulate the opinions and responses of all students, white and non-white. Race and age should no longer be a concern to non-white educators since the primary focus of their work is to provide relevant materials to students. The most competent educators will then be preserved by the school. The LMS, as software, can readily quantify the performance of each student by computing the scores gained by the students from their inputs, thus all efforts are accounted for. Favouritism is expected to be eliminated with a virtual learning set up.
There is a solution to the problem of discrimination in public schools and it is a learning management system, software which assists the administrators in managing education and training. Practising LMS would mean that students will be going virtual learning instead of going to the school premises physically. Hence, chances of being rejected in public will be lessened since interaction of students will only be online. Students of the minority races will no longer be anxious about their skin colour and most likely boost their confidence through online discussions. Similarly, teachers of minority races will be able to concentrate more on their crafts instead of worrying about getting retrenched because of their skin colour and age. Meaning, regardless of their age and colour, it is the quality of work or the content of their lessons is substantiated, and not something else. Another benefit of adopting an LMS is its capability to quantify the performance of each student. There will no longer be wasted efforts because of a bias grading system in virtual learning. Since the grading system will primarily be based on the inputs of the students, then it is assured that all efforts are accounted for.
Yes there is. A learning management system is the key to totally eliminate racial discrimination in the public schools. LMS is software that is designed for tracking, managing and monitoring education and training in the web. LMS does not only help students understand their academic lessons more conveniently, it also trains students to develop their sense of responsibility as it is virtual learning. Public education can be made technology-inclined through an LMS. There are numerous capabilities that an LMS can provide the schools such as administrative and academic requirements. Through virtual technology, the LMS will encourage faster learning pacing of students. This will teach the students to become more resourceful and responsible for their academic undertakings—diverting their attention away from attacking dissimilar races. Learning is brought to the comforts of the personal spaces of the students, hence should allow them to perform better. Racial differences will already be out of the question since students will learn to speak their minds out, eliminating timidity. The focal point of development will be the LMS, hence educators will be more motivated to improve on the materials they make available for the students. Finally, to completely eradicate discriminatory “encounters”, through the LMS, the students will be given fair treatment in terms of gaining their deserved merits since the LMS can measure performance based on inputs. Fairness in judgment is expected to dominate in the public education arena.
The students will not only acquire knowledge about academic lessons, but will also be moulded into men and women for others. Sense of responsibility will be one of the values instilled to each student through virtual learning. Public schools can take advantage of what captures the interest of this generation of technology integrating learning with quality through an LMS.
Virtual learning has a lot of benefits and is very promising for the students of this generation of technology. It is expected that the school gets to capture the interest of its students through the LMS. A learning management system can do a lot of convenience, practicality and effectiveness not only for the students, but for the school as well. The quality of education in the country can be restored through a learning management system because of the character-building that it also demands from the students.
Public schools which adopt learning management system will surely extricate the problem of racial discrimination. America’s quality of public education will definitely improve if LMS is adopted. The use of a learning management system does not only benefit the students, parents, or the school, but the entire society in the long run.