PBS Episode 2

As I watched the video of how the school systems used to be, I thought to myself, boy am I glad that I didn’t have to deal that. It was interesting how at the time there were people who thought education were very important for life but there were just so many thought the opposite that it took a long time for the education system to get anywhere. To start, it was easy for the students and teachers to get sick because they were all crammed into a single classroom for extended period of time. So not only were the classes extremely boring, but you were likely to get sick just by going to school. There was a time when it seemed like they were going to be excepting to all immigrants in schools and it seemed as though they were even proud of the diversity in the school system. As time passed on however, there started to become a divide between the races. Others were thought to be less smart based on where they were from in the world. The entire idea of IQ testing at the time may have seemed smart and a reliable way to tell who the truly intelligent student is. That being said, the whole system was just made up to give some notoriety. It was a hoax that never really did anything for the American school system. To give the generation some credit, they did eventually create a better school system that lets students move from class to class and funding was at one time poured into schools because the powers that be realized the importance of educating the youth of the country to keep it strong.