Your group mentioned having the united nations regulate your schools. How would you make sure that teachers teach their students fairly and without bias?
Matt you make a very important point. How could you change prejudices that run deep in a culture's belief system? And the truth is that in some cases change is extremely difficult, and practially impossible. But what has been proven true is that change is possible, and that change takes time. We could not integrate social classes that have been divided for hundreds of years in a week. It would be foolish and would have unpredictable outcomes. We couldn't even do it in a year. But if a plan was created that took place over about fifty years, than some beliefs in cultures might change. If females were put into classes with boys when they were 5-8 years old, some beliefs of equality between the two genders would start to emerge. If that happened in every preschool (or in a large percentage of preschools) in a country, than by the time those kids were older, there is a good chance they would carry the same beliefs of mutual (in some cases partial) equality between the genders. If this happened for a hundred years, who knows how the beliefs would change involving the equality of genders, but there is a good chance it would be for the better. Public speakers on equality could do some good by introducing new ideas, but the only thing that could really bring about equality in schools and in cultures would be the introducing of new ideas to the younger portions of communities that would change their view on other people when they are older.
How will you get other counties throughout the world to educate girls? They might have religious beleifs against that, and we can not tear apart their beleifs because of ours.
During the powerpoint you said that a lot of these countries were hurting because of all of the isms. But in particular what do you think that the main countries are that are hurting because of ism's?
Ambassadors would be sent out to each country. These ambassadors would inspect the public school system and evaluate the level of discrimination (as well as the funds, materials, etc). If a country is not meeting the required standards of quality, the UN would be forced to publish several articles on the inequalities being taught which should cause a public outcry, and in response, reform. Political leaders would be criticized and so would change their system. The schools would be required by law to teach the lesson plans we created which promote equality.
During the presentation you talked about the problem the solution and the plan. But i didnt hear you ever talk about the funding. Does it come from private doners, goverments, what?
To change the social classes in a way that benefits all would be impossible. This is because it is possible to change a group or even thousands of people’s social classes but it is impossible to create more wealth. Unfortunately this means that the total available prosperity and wealth in the world must be divided. Obviously, the ideal division would be as equal as possible. To do this one would simply have to redistribute the proportioning of taxes. If people who earned more, were taxed more, and people who earned less were taxed less or nothing, the wealth or money would be much more evenly distributed and create equal wealth. The taxes must be such so that every person is taxed so that each person ends up (after taxes) with the same amount as everybody else regardless of what they earn. Only then can we achieve true equality and equal education because the quality of education that somebody receives reflects their social class. So in conclusion, the only way to truly achieve educational equality would be to achieve social equality.
The law would require people to allow their children to go to school with others. If the parents want their children to receive education they must allow their children to go to inter-racial, inter-class, inter-religion schools. The law would require people to go to school. They would not have a choice. Also, if the children took the lesson plans that we created, they would believe in equality and would grow up believing in equality and not in their parents, or prejudiced ideas (hopefully). Basically, the law would prevent them from, denying their children education and education would be integrated so the parents really would not have a choice.
I thought that it was interesting that you listed problems with your solutions. If there are problems with your solutions then are they really solutions? What are your thoughts on this?
The education it self would not be the solution to discrimination but it would play some part. Educating children of different races, sexes, classes, or religions together at a young age would cause them to grow up thinking of each other as their equals instead of superior or inferior. The education would have still have some effect; when you educate children about each other and equality it will lead to the previously mentioned growing up as equals.
My answer to Ryan
I think the main countries being affected by these isms are India (classism), Muslim countries (sexism and religious discrimination) and Africa (racism)
My answer to Kits questions
I think the answers to both of your questions are very similar. I did not focus on sexism or religious discrimination but by using my idea of having the U.N. run and regulate the schools they could make sure examining beliefs classes were thought and that girls were allowed education.
My response to sonny's question: We will have different countries make contributions to build schools, as well as ask the world bank to lend us some money.
My response to john's question: We realize that we will have a brief time to try and eliminate all types of isms. A helpful thing is that if we can convince one country to enforce that there is no discrimination, and it is followed then the other countries will see how the country flourishes with the added people getting an education. You said "When we tried to integrate public schools, we had many problems.", yet we lessened racism a lot, true there still is a lot of racism in the U.S. but compared to back then it is like nothing.
My response to amanda's comment: I believe I was the only person in my group that listed the flaws in my solutions because i thought it was necessary to show that not all plans are foolproof. They are solutions though, we just have to push, push, push to make sure people don't sabotage the programs to make flaws in it.
The money could come from donors and governments, but the good part about or plan is that it would not require much funding. Because most of the plan is based upon just getting teachers into impoverished countries to present new ideas on how the social classes could be altered, there is no major campaign that needs to take place. Obviously there would be money involved to send teachers overseas and such, but that would come mostly from the UN and private business donors.
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Your group mentioned having the united nations regulate your schools. How would you make sure that teachers teach their students fairly and without bias?
How will you change the social classes in a way that would benefit all? Would this ensure good education for all?
What if parents don't allow their children to go to school with kids of different races or religions and don't send them to school at all?
In response to matthewl:
Matt you make a very important point. How could you change prejudices that run deep in a culture's belief system? And the truth is that in some cases change is extremely difficult, and practially impossible. But what has been proven true is that change is possible, and that change takes time. We could not integrate social classes that have been divided for hundreds of years in a week. It would be foolish and would have unpredictable outcomes. We couldn't even do it in a year. But if a plan was created that took place over about fifty years, than some beliefs in cultures might change. If females were put into classes with boys when they were 5-8 years old, some beliefs of equality between the two genders would start to emerge. If that happened in every preschool (or in a large percentage of preschools) in a country, than by the time those kids were older, there is a good chance they would carry the same beliefs of mutual (in some cases partial) equality between the genders. If this happened for a hundred years, who knows how the beliefs would change involving the equality of genders, but there is a good chance it would be for the better. Public speakers on equality could do some good by introducing new ideas, but the only thing that could really bring about equality in schools and in cultures would be the introducing of new ideas to the younger portions of communities that would change their view on other people when they are older.
You said in your presentation that the U.N should build atleast 100 schools. How will the U.N get the money to produce the making of these schools?
How will you get other counties throughout the world to educate girls? They might have religious beleifs against that, and we can not tear apart their beleifs because of ours.
How will your solution to religious discrimination really work? How will you force schools to teach the examining beleifs classes?
During the powerpoint you said that a lot of these countries were hurting because of all of the isms. But in particular what do you think that the main countries are that are hurting because of ism's?
In response to Joe P
Ambassadors would be sent out to each country. These ambassadors would inspect the public school system and evaluate the level of discrimination (as well as the funds, materials, etc). If a country is not meeting the required standards of quality, the UN would be forced to publish several articles on the inequalities being taught which should cause a public outcry, and in response, reform. Political leaders would be criticized and so would change their system. The schools would be required by law to teach the lesson plans we created which promote equality.
During the presentation you talked about the problem the solution and the plan. But i didnt hear you ever talk about the funding. Does it come from private doners, goverments, what?
Your group mentioned having better education for the children, but how does that solve the problem of discrimination?
In response to Lucy
To change the social classes in a way that benefits all would be impossible. This is because it is possible to change a group or even thousands of people’s social classes but it is impossible to create more wealth. Unfortunately this means that the total available prosperity and wealth in the world must be divided. Obviously, the ideal division would be as equal as possible. To do this one would simply have to redistribute the proportioning of taxes. If people who earned more, were taxed more, and people who earned less were taxed less or nothing, the wealth or money would be much more evenly distributed and create equal wealth. The taxes must be such so that every person is taxed so that each person ends up (after taxes) with the same amount as everybody else regardless of what they earn. Only then can we achieve true equality and equal education because the quality of education that somebody receives reflects their social class. So in conclusion, the only way to truly achieve educational equality would be to achieve social equality.
In response to Gretaj
The law would require people to allow their children to go to school with others. If the parents want their children to receive education they must allow their children to go to inter-racial, inter-class, inter-religion schools. The law would require people to go to school. They would not have a choice. Also, if the children took the lesson plans that we created, they would believe in equality and would grow up believing in equality and not in their parents, or prejudiced ideas (hopefully). Basically, the law would prevent them from, denying their children education and education would be integrated so the parents really would not have a choice.
I thought that it was interesting that you listed problems with your solutions. If there are problems with your solutions then are they really solutions? What are your thoughts on this?
My answer to Jessie-Jo
The education it self would not be the solution to discrimination but it would play some part. Educating children of different races, sexes, classes, or religions together at a young age would cause them to grow up thinking of each other as their equals instead of superior or inferior. The education would have still have some effect; when you educate children about each other and equality it will lead to the previously mentioned growing up as equals.
My answer to Ryan
I think the main countries being affected by these isms are India (classism), Muslim countries (sexism and religious discrimination) and Africa (racism)
My answer to Kits questions
I think the answers to both of your questions are very similar. I did not focus on sexism or religious discrimination but by using my idea of having the U.N. run and regulate the schools they could make sure examining beliefs classes were thought and that girls were allowed education.
My response to sonny's question:
We will have different countries make contributions to build schools, as well as ask the world bank to lend us some money.
My response to john's question:
We realize that we will have a brief time to try and eliminate all types of isms. A helpful thing is that if we can convince one country to enforce that there is no discrimination, and it is followed then the other countries will see how the country flourishes with the added people getting an education. You said "When we tried to integrate public schools, we had many problems.", yet we lessened racism a lot, true there still is a lot of racism in the U.S. but compared to back then it is like nothing.
My response to amanda's comment: I believe I was the only person in my group that listed the flaws in my solutions because i thought it was necessary to show that not all plans are foolproof. They are solutions though, we just have to push, push, push to make sure people don't sabotage the programs to make flaws in it.
In response to Ryan's second question:
The money could come from donors and governments, but the good part about or plan is that it would not require much funding. Because most of the plan is based upon just getting teachers into impoverished countries to present new ideas on how the social classes could be altered, there is no major campaign that needs to take place. Obviously there would be money involved to send teachers overseas and such, but that would come mostly from the UN and private business donors.
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