The Black community has faced several roadblocks 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.
Online Literacy is only helpful if it is accessible. Online learning has been hard for African Americans and many other groups because if they do not have the access to these types of things like computers and phones, etc then it is a struggle to learn more about things.
I was really shocked by the literacy tests that were given to the African Americans It was clearly very unfair and giving them only 10 minutes to answer 30 questions without being able to get one wrong was completely absurd. This was unjust and it should have never happened.
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.
