Problems With Suburban Schools

One of the biggest issues that urban and suburban school systems face today is the slow reappearance of segregated schools. The main problem with segregated schools is that, as a trend, urban schools tend to be on a substandard level as compared to most suburban schools. This may be due to their lack of money and how the money each school has is used. Urban schools do not have as many opportunities as suburban schools, like the use of new technologies, or going outside to play, or going on fieldtrips, due to the lack of money/resources and safety issues. Students that attend and graduate from suburban schools have more options than those attending and hoping to graduate from an inner city school. Dropping out of school is a greater issue in an inner city school than it is in a suburban school. Some urban students are able to be bused to suburban public schools, or leave the public school system to attend an independent or
Randomly assigning certain school children to new school districts could help the problem of integration. This system poses its own problems. By randomly assigning children to certain schools, one would not know if the school will truly be diverse. Also, there may be oppositions from families if their children have to ride the bus miles just to go to school in another district if there is a well established school in the district where he or she lives. Also, inner city students face the same problem of traveling may be miles to and from school everyday to a school that may be up to educational par, but may be an hour away both the ways.

In the past four decades, we have found ourselves with the problem of segregation- a problem that should have been remedies long ago. One can see from the history of attempting to desegregate schools that there is no easy answer, no quick fix. It may very well take many more years before we can actually say that schools are fully integrated.