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The article talks about some of the more bigger problems that comes with online classes and the best ways to combat them

This is a great article. I had an article about the positive and negative things of online learning. These ways of combatting problems are great and should be taught to students in the class.

This article gives helpful tips to those taking online classes during these unprecedented times. These special tips are great and will allow students to become more successful if they are presented with the information.

In this article, it tells what happened to middle-class families during the election. Most middle-class families rely on their jobs for their main source of income. It also talks about the percentages of families who live paycheck to paycheck.

This article describes the various ways that POC are treated differently. This can cause doctors to provide the wrong treatment or no treatment for the minority who don't have access to healthcare.

The fact that we continue to face and see discrimination when it comes to health care is appalling. When dealing with health, health care providers should not be biased on who to help due to their skin color or certain characteristics.

There is no reason why there should still be discrimination in health care, they're saving your life regardless of your color.

This article talks about how New York City's public middle schools and high schools are now required to take sex ed classes. This article talks about this new mandate and its implications and the effects that it might have. The article also provides reasons on why it was decided that sex ed should be a required class and its benefits. 

Sex ed should be a choice for kids to take in accordance to their parents, for myself when I was younger we had to have a signed paper from our parents giving us permission to take part in the sex ed class and for those parents who said no and wanted to teach there kid themselves went to another room. I see both sides to this article and its a very well informative piece.

I think a semester of sex ed would be great. When I was in school it was just a 55 minute lecture with a couple of videos. I understand why some people may be upset with this, however, those people must understand that not every child has an involved parent who are capable or willing to educate their children. I think safe sex is integral for our children to learn. I believe it could help lower the stats of sexually transmitted disease and teen pregnancies.

This is an article all about breaking down the statistics surrounding Arizona's growing income gap between the middle class and the elite. Like most of America, our middle class has remained just about stagnant, while from 2017 to 2019, the top 20% of income earners in Arizona has risen 1.9%, which is .5% more than the national average.

The article talks about how the educational system need to be more then just math, english, and science but also teach children active life skills and young adults life skills for the future career they may want in the future, teaching that the SAT's isn't the best approach for testing, very well written article that I enjoyed reading.

On this topic, so many things to say. I have to admit here the educational system is very different than other countries. What really surprised me, was that the classes like history, biology, chemistry, geography..are optional. I really don't understand how you expect a child to learn and get some general knowledge, if these classes are optional. It is most likely that the child would chose none or one maybe, and then we think oh, the child can learn from internet or TV. But, the child would rather play a game online or watch a movie. The educational system needs readjustment and the curriculum changed in some classes where you have only dry material to study. We live in a society where technology is everywhere in all forms, we should take advantage of that, and create something more attractive to kids with the purpose of learning, almost like a game. I am sure that will attract children, and it will even encourage competition among them. For example, some of the educational apps, we see on all devices.

Conservative Republican lawmakers introduce bills to censor ethnic cultural classes on K-12 and College campuses.

I heard about that. That is a violation of the freedom of speech and expression.

I heard about this the other day and was blown away by it. It made me laugh that this Rep. thought that ethnic or cultural classes insight violence and discrimination. In my opinion, they do just the opposite. When you learn about another culture you are able to understand their background more. It creates an environment in which understanding occurs and you are better informed on the struggles of a specific ethnic group. Being informed is never a bad thing and if someone thinks it is then clearly they need to take a few ethnic cultural classes to get rid of that ignorance.

Two weeks ago, the Arizona state legislature introduced HB 2120, a piece of legislation that would ban courses and events on college campuses relating to "social justice." This means that they will prohibit courses, classes, events and activities' in public schools that promote 'social justice toward a race, gender, religion, political affiliation, social class or other class of people

Article on House Bill 2120 that restricts any activities that promote division in universities and community colleges. Author cites Trump election as the cause of the increase in bills that effect freedom of speech and social injustice.

Article about a class-action suit against the cities of Mt. Vernon and Burlington (both in Washington) for failing to provide meaningful representation to poor defendants facing misdemeanor charges. The lawyers handled 1,000 cases a year, way more than the cap of 400 allowed annually. In result, they were spending less than an hour per case.

This article is about students in California protesting the tuition hikes by walking out of class . This staged walk out happened all across the state.

This article discusses the difficulties that the students and the teachers confront. It lists out some of the issues and gives a description on how both sides are affected.

I agree with you in this article and how students and teachers are having a lot of difficulties. COVID-19 really impacted everyone in a huge way and it has caused many problems for in-person learning and more.

this issue is one important one that many of us students face with this new way of learning. like mentioned in this article students face so many problems with the online learning.

This article criticizes the concept of political correctness preventing higher thinking in academia. The author is a survivor of rape and discusses how using trigger warnings can be helpful in a classroom setting and does not minimize the learning experience. The author provides an anecdote, as well as an example of a 'get to know you' worksheet she uses at the University she teaches at.

This article criticizes the concept of political correctness preventing higher thinking in academia. The author is a survivor of rape and discusses how using trigger warnings can be helpful in a classroom setting and does not minimize the learning experience. The author provides an anecdote, as well as an example of a 'get to know you' worksheet she uses at the University she teaches at.

I really like the use of "trigger words" in education. I don't think it matters if it is used in college or in K12. The whole point is to alert you to a possible trauma causing conversation or topic that could come up in class that could make someone uncomfortable. Unfortunately there are so many triggers in the world today that you could never call out all of them. The teacher made reference to an apple. Who would think that was a trigger? Not I.

The who, what, where, when, and why of human trafficking. Including a hotline to help prevent trafficking from occurring. The impact it has on our world. Its not limited to race gender or age but, all classes of individuals. An organization devoted to help this social injustice. (soroptimist)

So, sad that we live in a world where this happens. We should add to the list of human trafficking the children, new born children that are sold. I applaud the Soroptimist organization for wanting to help and reduce this type of slavery.

Private citizens don't need ammo two or three years in the future.They need it at prices the poor and middle class citizen, who needs self-protection the most, can afford. We don't need single women being raped and murdered because they couldn't afford, or couldn't buy, ammunition for their personal firearm.

This is a video on how Colorado is wanting to force engaged couples to go to pre-wedding counseling before they actually get married.

This article explains the pros and cons about introducing a break for prayer in pre kinder classes how it would interfere with church and state separations.

Office of the High Commissioner: United Nations Human Rights. This website lists an array of social justice issues. This may serve as a good resource for us in this class as we explore the different topics we may research for our final paper in this class.

What a good article to start off with! It will definitely help out with your search as you go before condensing and narrowing down ideas has to happen.

Excited to review the site in detail for our final paper. I think this will help me out considerably because I'm still figuring out my topic. Thank you for the list of issues!

Within this article I learn about what effects poverty might bring to children. I learn that living in a poverty, it can have effects within the family, and educational outcomes.Children who grown up in poverty don't have many opportunities such as those who grown up in middle class or upper class. Poverty has many effects on a child's life and how they will live as an adult.

I have never researched poverty in children,but I can imagine what kind of effects it has on them as a grown up. When those children are born into that life,the cycle is really hard to get out of.

Poverty is a rough thing on children for sure, agree wit you and good post.

The gap between the 1% and the rest of the world is growing. The opinion that those that are in the top 1% have earned, and continue to earn that type of income. The reality is that research has proven this is not the case. Research has also proven that those who are not born to the upper class do not have nearly the same opportunities to succeed in life. The system is corrupt. The rich are growing richer off the work of the poor, who are becoming impoverished.