Essential Question #2
How did Massive Resistance affect Blacks, poor whites, and rich people?
Pretend you are a student in Prince Edwards County during Massive Resistance. You can’t attend school at all. What decision will your family make about your education? If you were not able to get an education, then how do you feel about the 2003 General Assembly apologizing to the Prince Edward students for losing five years of education? Write about it on my Blog.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:34 am
I would not take the apology because there’s no replacing 5 years of my education.Until i’m 20 years old i’ll be without a job and poor. I wouldn’t take an apology from a white person because all the pain they caused black people in the early 1900′s.I would be mad because I wouldn’t want to spend 5 years of my life being dumb and miserable.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:35 am
If I was at Prince Edward county during Massive Resistance I would not like it because the money parents give to people will be cut off from all the state fundings.Our parents would be mad because they don’t get the money back.A reason why I would like it because it is new and they keep almost 400 students out of school for 2 weeks.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:36 am
MY family and I are angry because I can’t go to school all because of the Massive Resistance. My family did not want me to not have education so they sent me to Atlanta,Georgia where my cousin lives.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:38 am
I was a Prince Edward County student during massive resistance. I couldn’t attend school because Prince Edward County closed all the schools down because they didn’t want to integrate. They sent me a letter asking if I wanted to continue my education in north Carolina, but I replied a simple ,”No” in return. I was only in the ninth grade and I didn’t feel ready to travel alone yet. Now I realize, I should have gone because later in life, I couldn’t find a job. Last year, in 2003, the General Assembly wrote me a letter apologizing to me for what they did! i replied,” Thanks a lot . like that’s going to make a difference now!” So, because of them, I lost five years of education! Words can’t even describe how I feel but, what’s done is done and i can’t undo it. I wish they would have did that earlier. This is how I feel.