Sohee Han: Special Education and Segregation

Sohee Han writes: In the last decades, many public places were segregated and school was not an exception. In chapter 25, Brown v. Board of Education, it discusses about the unfairness of accepting students within the schools. Black people could not attend schools, not only by a prejudice perception, but as a law. Soon, under the Fourteenth Amendment, the black people also could have education but with separated facilities. Although the law states that black people have right to have equal opportunity as white people, the reality is different. As a future educator, it remained me the law in today’s society. Today, the United States published the law that all people who born in the United States have right to have education. This not only includes different races of people, but even people who are disabled. If a child is disabled in physically or mentally that may affected on learning, it is school’s responsibility to teach a child when his/her parents asked the school. This shows how the education system has improved over last several decades.