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Entry #3

The Rosa Parks article that was assigned this week was a version that I did not know and it was not taught in school. The article describes it as the “Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott” version due to every textbook having the same version [Kohl, H. The politics of Children’s Literature; What’s wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth. Zinn Education Project 1-6.] The article was insightful and it gave a description of Rosa Parks interview about her arrest. Articles like this ones, where the information is reliable and the author is just stating the facts, helps analyze the events of history from a critical viewpoint. Such texts also makes teachers ask why history has been taught a certain way and why certain facts are omitted from the students. With such thought, I decided to include a video about the school system which it came out a few years ago. The video is a simulation of a court case which the people are suing the school system because it does not benefit the students and the teachers follow the curriculum that the state has written for them. The video also describes how classroom have not changed while technology and phones have, it plea the school system to make a change in the education system to allow the student to find their interest and thrive. The video also described how other countries have a better education system and do not emphasized standardized testing as much like in the United States. On this note, that is why I have learned the truth about Rosa Parks, years after graduating high school. The curriculum of the school system is written to educate with the wrong knowledge.

Ea, P. (2016, September 26). I JUST SUED THE SCHOOL SYSTEM! [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8

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