American Education in the 1930s

Two hundred thousand people left unemployed and 2.2 million children
were pushed out of school and 2 hundred thousand rural schools in 24
states failed to open. There was often a young teacher that taught all
grades in a one classroom school. Many of the children that went to school
would get there by riding a horse. They would slap the horse`s rump to
send it home and when school was over the children would walk home.
Another form of transport to school was form of bus that was pulled along
by horse.

Black school children were segregated from with school children which
mean that white children would not be held back by less-capable black
children. Black schools mainly in the south weren`t funded. There were
very few black high schools in the south. In sixteen states there was not a
single state-supported black institution that offered graduate or
professional programs. Black communities throughout the country schools
for themselves and hired instructors for the most difficult subjects. White
school boards paid whit teachers an average annual salary of $833
compared to black teachers who had larger teaching roles but were paid
only $510. The Depression improved the black education system in many
ways. In northern schools, the board began to abolish segregated
education as a way of saving money. By 1940, 500 000 illiterate African
Americans had been taught to read and write. The number of African
American students attending high school doubled, the number of highschool graduates tripled, and the percentage of African Americans
attending school became equal to white Americans.

To have a success in education children would have had to have finished

some sort of degree in college. Children of parents with high wage job
often attended private, expensive college preparatory schools. To attend
college students had to be able to speak archaic languages such as Latin
and also needed to understand algebra. This left students who attended
public schools at a disadvantage as these subjects were often not taught
within their schools.