Before the civil war African Americans were denied to any form of learning such as reading and writing. So when the civil war ended and Afrian Americans got there so called freedom they were now aloud to open school houses an such places to gain higher knowledge mostly based out of churches or from home.The school houses that were established were threw the governments help getting African American life togather. The school houses that were opened were mostly taught by abolitionists. These abolitionists had mostly been white women.
The education of blacks weren't as good as of the whites but it was much better than what they had. The blacks were so called moving up in the country but the way they were treated the same by the KKK and other hate groups. School houses were burned down blacks were lycnhed for just trying to better themselves. Which was a horrible situation for blacks to be in like blacks couldn't win for losing. The Bad part about this is blacks went through all that back then just to learn and now that alot of black students get kicked out of school many others just think its pointless.
Today most students hate school and just go to hang out or to just make parents happy like they attend school but for all the wrong reason. I mean our ancestors did all that fighting for us to have a better education and look at how we repay them. School is one of the most important things in the world like they always say knowledge is power. I mean we have a black man as a canidate for president all these trails and tribulations that blacks have been through to gain the right just to be able to learn on the same level as whites. Today students take school as a joke specially in America blacks americans for the most part.
It is a shame that blacks in this country could care less about school. If i was to ask ten black kids i know why they come to school at four would say just to get out the house three would say to make my peoples (family) happy i would get two i dont knows and maybe one person to say i come to school to learn. Things like this makes our country a pittiful place to be. We claim to be the best country in the world but we hate to do the asy things like go to school in developing nations education is the important thing in the world its kids who wake up three hours early to make it to school on time. Where "we the best country in the world" have kids who live right across the street from school late everyday.
It is truly and deeply sad that after all our people went through we cant even go to school everyday and be proud that we can even attend. Its a shame how our people and country has made a turn for the worst. School creates oppertunites thats why i go it opens doors for me to become something great. You never kno what could happen maybe im the next Obama
