It is easier to keep an A than to earn an A

I have been sitting in the house watching movies all day (this is what a vacay. from the job feels like=UGH). Besides Dead Presidents I had the opportunity to examine Dangerous Minds through a critical lens, Though I may have mixed feelings the one thing that stood out to me (amongst many others) was when the teacher (Michelle Pfeiffer) tried to change the curriculum againts the principals will (Courtney B. Vance) by teaching the students poetry and karate(though dangerous became a tool to gain their trust and attention), "things that were against the Board of education's curriculum".I began to rethink my educational background to better understand that our educational system is still within the teachings of banking, we become deposits and weather or not we can understand the information if we are able to recite it we pass. The school understood that many of the students couldn't read, came from impoverished neighborhoods, were dead squat poor- if not close, and would be at least the 1st to graduate from High School from their families. Their futures were already planned, they were never asked what they wanted to learn, what they needed to build, on;instead roads were being constructed without them even having the knowledge of how to climb a road that isn't designed for blacks. The tar would be too hard too much for a black man or woman's feet to cross. Their eyes would burn more looking at that road than watching someone die due to a "routine" shoot out. The struggle of black education is a hard one, we must build our own roads instead of walking on those we have no knowledge of its construction.