Civil Rights To Be Followed In Schools

Every American citizen’s basic rights are protected by The Bill of Rights, however do these same rights apply to students of public schools? Students attending public schools are not protected by the rights guaranteed by the bill of rights. Aspects of the first amendment, fourth amendment, and eighth amendment do not apply to public schools. American citizen’s right of freedom of expression is a very import part of The Bill of Rights and is deprived of many students in public schools.

Within the United States everyday many people from different races experience discrimination within every aspect of there lives. One aspect is within the school systems that they are having to attend. The funding between the school systems in the United States and in different areas within those states has a large gap. This gap was so large that within the, “The Atlantic” a credible news article wrote about how race within the schools influences how much that school is going to receive funding. In the article called, “ The Data Dre Damaging: How race Influences School Funding” it states, “That means that no matter how rich or poor the district in question, funding gaps existed solely based on the racial composition of the school. Just the increased presence of minority students actually deflated a district’s funding level” (White). If this is true what is to say that every school in America is still doing this kind of discrimination. This kind of discrimination on needs to end immediately. Just because these young children are growing up in the poorer sections of town doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t have the same rights as other kids. Every child in America should have the same access to a quality education.

In some schools there has been an issue of white teachers and students treating black students differently. This issue has been going unnoticed or ignored and needs to be addressed.

The civil rights movement propelled the people of the United States to realize how powerful their voice can be. The civil rights movement after 1945 did not just include African Americans, but also Native Americans and Feminist. These three groups have had a huge impact on America, which completely changed lives for the better. This movement not only went through struggles in order to reach the goal of fulfillment, but also made history in the making.

Quality public education should be available to everyone regardless of race. Putting an end to racial segregation has had positive effects on the students. African American students are able to learn about new career pathways from white students, and are also able to be

Jury duty is a constitutional and fundamental right guaranteed to American citizens. Jury service is a way for citizens to directly participate in the judicial system. Jury duty and jury trials have been around for so long that people take it for granted. The jury was one of the factors that caused the American Revolution because the English common law system did not allow alleged criminals to have the sixth amendment rights that the United States has today. In fact, The Declaration of Independence charged that King George III deprived the colonists of a trial by jury (United States Federal Judicial Center, n.d). The Founding Fathers of the United States established the role of the jury and the right to trial by jury in most criminal and civil cases in the Constitution but that clearly cannot be fulfilled unless there are people serving on a jury.

Today, white and black students attend the same schools, yet, students in the United States still remain educationally unequal and segregated socially within classrooms. The Cold War issue of desegregating schools was addressed back in 1954 with a federal court case called Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, where Oliver Brown focused on getting white and black students into the same schools. At the time, people considered the problem fixed, but today, schools are still segregated in that African Americans are struggling to keep up, and are placed in less difficult classes than whites, inherently limiting our potential as a country. Having the federal government solve racial inequality in education would best prepare

We have a long way to go, as author Jeanne Theoharis proves in her article, "I Hate It When People Treat Me Like a Fxxx-up" the students of color in one school (as well, assumed in other schools) received unequal treatment, services, and materials because school officials believed the students did not care about their education. However, the minority students kept a journal of how important their education was and the tolerance of the unfair treatment toward the minorities was exposed and corrected (Theoharis 409.) The idea that minorities, particularly African American, do not care about their education or are a "problem population" because of their race, and the typical disadvantages that come along with that is primitive. From the days of Harriet Tubman and slavery, to the powerful resolution of Rosa Parks, to the incredible civil rights acts in the 1960's, to the most wealthy woman in America being African American, black people have changed their face and the face of our history throughout time.

I am a citizen of the United States of America, arguably the most powerful country in the world. As such, I expect to be treated as outlined in our Declaration of Independence: “...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness-”. It seems like such a simple idea; everyone deserves to live life freely and happily. So why is it that today there are so many controversies pertaining to this very principle? Our civil rights and liberties as American citizens are constantly under scrutiny as we struggle to understand the simple word ‘all’. History is our evidence that minority groups are

When the framers decided to create the Constitution, it was meant to be made for the people by the people. The difficult part about it was, as time went by, people were given more rights and were unjustly discriminated because of the past. This has happened in many cases throughout our countries history. Civil rights are a big part of our society and the past shows many ways that the civil rights of the citizens were taken from. In Unit 2 of the course, we learned three different ways the government can discriminate the people of the United States and the meticulous process it takes the government to discriminate. The different ways to discriminate are separated into three different classifications which are, Suspect classification, Quasi-Suspect classification, and Nonsuspect classification. Even though everyone has civil rights the government can sometimes discriminates to ensure the safety of the society. Which rarely happens. Discrimination is a big part of our government and well never be solved, but there are many reasons behind the most complicated subject in our society.

Civil rights have been a big issue throughout American history. From the time America was formed, groups have been discriminated against due to their ethnicity, religion, and race. Slaves were not considered American so they did not have rights. They did not become American citizens until the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1868. Still, African Americans still did not have as many rights as other groups. Almost a century after the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted, African Americans were still fighting for equal rights. That is where Civil Rights leaders like Fannie Lou Hamer and Martin Luther King Jr. come in; with any cause, there are those who oppose it: in this case it would be George C. Wallace.

There are various opportunities and ideas, which could better the African-American race. Despite what many might think, schools are quite vital to African-American students for core reasons such as past suppressants that did not allow black children to go to school as acquired. It would be safe to assume that schools were safe for black students, but segregation was not lifted until 1954 where it was said to be unconstitutional. Attending a school that is predominantly a different race is already a challenge to face, aside finding the tools to exercise the education being given. Teachers have a large impact on students’ lives.

“Civil rights” as a term feels outdated and outmoded and officially ended with the voting rights act of 1965 and the civil acts right of 1968, which overcame legal barriers to equality. Since then, movements like the black lives matter focuses on the unwritten inequality, like the pervasive micro insults that millions of african americans face each day. It's not surprising that race still divides our nation, especially considering that slavery was only ended 150 years ago. The new direction is to address additional cultures and lifestyles into the conversation, and the people who will change the future are alive right now. College campuses are where progressive ideas are forming all around the world. With the time, resources and motivation

For years every citizen has struggled to receive equal rights whether it’d be African Americans, Women, LGBT citizens, or anyone of any different race or culture or religion. As time goes on in the United States no one will ever be equal that’s the issue the United States Government has, Whenever there is a group of people who are or who have different views or beliefs they are automatically wrong and they shouldn’t have the same rights as everyone else just because they are different. Do I believe that the media such as ABC or CBS or any other type of media gave Civil Rights enough coverage? I think they did and they put everything they could on TV and on the internet and in the books and they helped people gain their own opinions of the African

In this class the most important thing that I learned is that the civil rights movement was made possible do to the community because in high school I only knew a King centric view. Due to my knowledge I believed that King and Rosa Park were the only leaders of the civil right movement. Also the only event that I ever knew about the civil rights movement was the boycotts and the sit ins. If I never took this class I would have never imagined that the organizing tradition, old and young generation, community, local leaders, national leaders and families were the ones that set up a foundation for the movement. The most surprising of this class is when I saw the movie called slavery by another name because it shows that slavery never truly went away but it evolved and hid the truth by calling it another