- The Black community has faced several road blocks that prevents equal access to literacy. Segregation is one example of this. “The Library Card” is a story about a young boy’s perseverance to access education despite racial roadblocks.
- Literacy is only helpful as long as it’s accessible. Online learning has made it more difficult for African-American students to attend class because they’re more likely to lack the connectivity needed for remote learning. (COVID-19, AA Lit Crisis…). Larger class sizes, reading regulations, and slave-era barriers to literacy all affect accessibility, turning it into a tool.
- I was really shocked that the entire test needed to be completed in 10 minutes, especially when you could fail if you missed one question. That means you’d only have MAXIMUM 20 seconds for each question. I had to re-read “Divide a vertical line in two equal parts by bisecting it with a curved horizontal line that is only straight at its spot bisection of the vertical” about 8 different times and I’m still not sure I understand it.
- Acknowledging the systemic racial disparities is the first step to establishing equality. Improving economic mobility would be a good second step.
- The argument is that funding K-2nd grade isn’t an efficient approach to addressing literacy issues as it only reaches a small portion of African-American students. Accessible early childhood education, removing reading regulations, and providing African-American students with relevant, relatable, and unbiased reading material are steps that would need to be taken as well. Restricting access to education has never resulted in a positive outcome.
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