Please view the photograph below. After viewing the photograph answer the following question: What do you think of when you look at this photograph? Please post your response in the "post comment" section below this post.
My first gut response to this: how sad is it that kids have to be escorted to school in order to get their education just like everyone else? We shun guns in school, yet on this day, they were a necessity. There were so many stupid and ignorant people who were opposed to these brave kids going to school, that they needed armed guards. so sad.
I agree with Jennifer. This is very sad and so unneccesary in the the process of educating children. It shows the ignorance of people and their unwillingness for change. Poor kids what a frightening education. I thought education was suppose to be fun....
What a courageous thing for these young students to do for the civil rights movement. Everyday they were escorted making them stronger and stronger. Fighting for their education... and now all I think about is NCLB.
I think of the bravery of the students. I wonder what the armed men really thought. Did they support these students or were they doing a job? Did they interact with the students in any way?
This scene is so obtuse. We agree that equal education is everyone's right and enough people in power allowed these girls to enter a place where they could be educated with their peers. Yet, because of their collective attitude, enough people WITH power required these girls to be escorted with armed soldiers. This picture represents persistence in many forms.
Persistence, what a perfect word Amy, I was struggling for the right one. They are going to school, no matter what. This is a powerful photo and message.
The first thing I noticed when looking at this photo was the contrast between the girls and the soldiers. The girls are dressed in patterned dresses and carrying a stack of books while the soldiers, dressed in their solid color uniforms, are carrying guns.
I have to admit I think about that brief moment when the saddle shoes of these young women reach the front door, the machine guns are beyond them, and they take that first step inside the school...that moment were they might experience a sigh of relief...they made it inside...maybe things will be okay today...maybe not...but I made it inside...I can do this again...
A lot of bravery, such a sense of purpose coupled with the fear. A shame that the earlier sense of purpose has given way to lowest-common-denominator slack-jawed apathy.
My first gut response to this: how sad is it that kids have to be escorted to school in order to get their education just like everyone else? We shun guns in school, yet on this day, they were a necessity. There were so many stupid and ignorant people who were opposed to these brave kids going to school, that they needed armed guards. so sad.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jennifer. This is very sad and so unneccesary in the the process of educating children. It shows the ignorance of people and their unwillingness for change. Poor kids what a frightening education. I thought education was suppose to be fun....
ReplyDeleteWhat a courageous thing for these young students to do for the civil rights movement. Everyday they were escorted making them stronger and stronger. Fighting for their education... and now all I think about is NCLB.
ReplyDeleteI think of the bravery of the students. I wonder what the armed men really thought. Did they support these students or were they doing a job? Did they interact with the students in any way?
ReplyDeleteThis scene is so obtuse. We agree that equal education is everyone's right and enough people in power allowed these girls to enter a place where they could be educated with their peers. Yet, because of their collective attitude, enough people WITH power required these girls to be escorted with armed soldiers. This picture represents persistence in many forms.
ReplyDeletePersistence, what a perfect word Amy, I was struggling for the right one. They are going to school, no matter what. This is a powerful photo and message.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I noticed when looking at this photo was the contrast between the girls and the soldiers. The girls are dressed in patterned dresses and carrying a stack of books while the soldiers, dressed in their solid color uniforms, are carrying guns.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit I think about that brief moment when the saddle shoes of these young women reach the front door, the machine guns are beyond them, and they take that first step inside the school...that moment were they might experience a sigh of relief...they made it inside...maybe things will be okay today...maybe not...but I made it inside...I can do this again...
ReplyDeleteWhat a remarkable picture. It tells the story that they are soldiers as well! Bravo to the photographer who made a picture tell a thousand words.
ReplyDeleteA lot of bravery, such a sense of purpose coupled with the fear. A shame that the earlier sense of purpose has given way to lowest-common-denominator slack-jawed apathy.
ReplyDeleteI can do this...one more time...I'm not letting these white folks get the best of me...I will do this...God please help me...
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