Deconstructing 'Dropout'.
Garcia, Genesis.
2015
- Even after the “end” of segregated schooling with the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, one of the biggest issues in U.S. education is the marginalization and failure of students of Color. Through both a film and a complementary analytical paper, this thesis examines Diploma Plus (DP), a predominantly Black and Latino alternative schooling program at Charlestown High School (CHS) in ... read moreBoston, and how it empowers its students of Color. Through reading about (and actually seeing and hearing) the voices and lived experiences of the students at Diploma Plus and the educators who teach them, we can see that students of Color do not simply choose to drop out of school, and that schools as institutions, if and when they challenge traditional forms of White-centered schooling, can make education a liberating rather than a marginalizing experience for students of Color. In a White supremacist society that already labels students of Color as defiant, uncultured, and unteachable, the purpose of this thesis is to challenge these images that relegate students of Color to the margins. In this way, it also deconstructs the dominant narrative that further labels the students of Color that leave school as ‘failures’ and at sole fault for their decision to leave. Lastly, it raises larger questions about what the purpose of education should be and whether schools, as they are currently structured, can be sites where a student of Color can be truly educated.read less
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