Boston Public Schools Map

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Boston schools introduced the Galls-Peter projection map.

- The Mercator map, commonly used, distorted the reality and did not offer accurate representation of the continents.

Gerardus Mercator devised his map in 1569 to aid navigation along colonial trade routes by drawing straight lines across the oceans.
- The Mercator map shaped and distorted the nations to fit within the lines of the oceans where Gerardus Mercator drew to make sailing the oceans easier. Although the scale and position of the terrain on Earth is accurate, due to the inaccuracy of country proportions, Boston Schools introduction of the Galls-Peter map offers something closer to the geographical truth.
- It's a map drawn in 1569 making it an outdated map. Surely, there must have been some change from then to now of 2017. Unification/separation of countries, or even the terrain shift and change of the world due to environmental effects.

The district has 125 schools and 57,000 students, 86% of whom are non-white, with the largest groups being Latino and Black.
- The Mercator map is drawn based on the historical and sociopolitical time of the European imperialist powers. Meaning that there is bias as to how big the size of a country is and their placement. With the Galls-Peter projection map, it will hopefully shift students' perspective of the world away from presenting white history as the dominant position seeing as there is a majority of non-white students within the district. This will change an outlook for these kids, hopefully for the better as it gets rid of the 'fostered European imperialist attitudes'.

What the Boston public schools are doing is extremely important and should be adopted across the whole of the US and beyond.
- Having the Galls-Peter projection map, which is a more accurate map than the Mercator map, could change students' perspective on the world for the better - it presents the countries as it is - being geographically accurate and there is no sign of imperialistic biases. It presents an equal world by displaying their accurate proportions.   

Definitions:

- Paradigm shift

'A fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions.' -New Oxford American Dictionary

- Ethical bias

Ethical bias is similar to conformity bias as conformity bias is basing your decisions to what society thinks is right or wrong.

- European Imperialism
Expanding an empire onto foreign lands and implementing their own rules/authority. Being under the rule of an emperor/empress.