Extra Credit - Sociology 134
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Let The Little Light Shine
In the film,
Let The Little Light Shine
, speaks upon a high-achieving elementary school,
National Teachers Academy, near downtown Chicago getting closed down and turned into a
highschool. This school is filled with a majority of it being the Black community. A
lecture/reading from class that connects with this is the audio of
The Problem We All Live With
.
That audio talks about a Black girl's journey of her education. The problem with this audio was
segregation. Normandy school in Missouri was the school that was spoken upon. The Black girl
who spoke about her experience strived at this school. She was on honor roll, had good grades,
etc. but never was really acknowledged for her achievements. The students were given an
opportunity to learn at a better school that was mainly White which created tension at this new
school. Both of these connect because they reflect on education and how education was being
stripped from the Black community. Community council meetings were held and let students
speak about their feelings and even though these students said positive things about their school,
it was still taken away from them because of the color of their skin. Whether it is a good school
getting closed down for a different school or whether it has to do with segregation.
Something new I learned in this film is someone said that moving the elementary school
into a K-12 school instead of K-8th was saying that there wasn’t a need for high school being
needed in that area. A lot of the interviewers instead of saying it was segregation or fault of the
Black community, there was also more of a positive aspect of supporting the Black community in
this film. Instead of just the story of the students, it was the views of the parents, and faculty.
NTA was also filled with White faculty as well, like the principal, that supported the Black
community. It was a movement of the community against the faculty and although there are
many stories and films in regards to this, just seeing everyone not give up and fight and hear
things from not a faculty but a loving community and family is amazing.
MLA Citation:
The problem we all live with - part one
. This American Life. (2015, July 31). Retrieved
April 22, 2023, from
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with-part-one
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