1970's+Education

1970s Education **Introduction**

Education was a big issue throughout the 1970's.Education was really different then from now. For example, during the 1970s teachers could spank their students if they were behaving badly. In most cases, fathers had to teach the children how to read before entering pre-k. For most students school wasn't a big deal.Since the 1970s the united states started to have more racially integrated schools.

**Impact on Disabled People**

During the 1970s only 62% of disabled people actually went to school. Many of the disabled people did not have an education. Afterwards, the law 94-142 guaranteed them an education. They had a greater opportunity to learn once the law was passed. In 1975 disabled students gained the right to a free public education. Public education was opened to anybody who was handicapped, blind, deaf, learning disabled, or emotionally unstable. The disabled people wanted to be treated like normal people.Later on, in 1990, the disabilities act([|ADA]) was passed and the disabled people had bigger opportunities than before.The ADA law made the disabled kids get an education. 

 **Busing**

Throughout the 1970s busing was a controversial topic involving a lot of people. The majority of people didn't like the idea of busing. Only 43% of children rode the bus to school. 73% of parents opposed to busing because of the racial segregation. In contrast, 20% of parents favored it ,because it was a mode of transportation. In the case of [|Milliken v. Bradley], the Supreme Court decided that school districts needed to provide busing to Detroit's black schools and Suburban white schools.

**Bilingual Education**  Before 1968, the Supreme Court had decided that schoool had to be taught in English. T he Bilingual Education Act, was the first congress that established bilingual education to provide immigrant students with education in their own language. However,during the 1970s, twenty states made laws to have bilingual education in schools. Therefore, the demanded for bilingual teachers increased. In 1974, the case of [|Lau v. Nichols,] was brought by Chinese American students that claimed that they were not receiving a fair education because they didn't know alot of english. Both of this cases helped the U.S. progress in bilingual education.

**Girls & Guys** The majority of girls who went to school /college ended up as elementary school teachers.That was one of the most major proffessions for women during the 70s. Guys who went to school ended up as "White-collared" professionals. Only a minority of students got the opportunity to go to college. College was a big decision financial wise. Most parents wanted their children to go to college but it was hard to get the money for the tuition.

** Religion ** The majority of parents send their children to catholic school. During the 70s going to catholic school was very popular. The catholic religion was one of the major religons throughout the 70s.The fathers had to teach their children about god before they were enrolled in regular school. Most kinder students previously knew about god. Religion played a big role in most families.

**Desegregation** <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Previously, the Brown v. Education judgement had declared unconstitutional to have segregated schools. However, by the 1970s, some schools were still segreagated. Most schools in the South ignored the ruling. February 8 1970, Governor George Wallance suggested to South that they should ignore the intergration laws.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">By: Ashley and Jocelyn