Desegregation In Elementary Schools Research Paper

Moreover, blacks and other students of color work just as hard as white students. These children each have the same potential but when not given the proper guidance and education they have a slimmer chance of achieving their dreams of success. Which is why implementing desegregation in all schools is so important. “...black Americans who attended integrated schools were more likely to graduate, go on to college, and earn a degree, it increased their earnings increased by 15%, they were significantly less likely to spend time in jail, and they were healthier than black Americans who attended segregated schools.” (Nikole Hannah-Jones) This sample shows us that when schools are integrated the African American students who attended were more likely
A school in Manhattan around 1995: “The school is a ten-story building with 12 science labs, five gyms, an Olympic swimming pool, an elegant theater, a rooftop satellite dish that captures data for meteorologic computations, 450 IBM and Macintosh computers...Of the students that attend this school, 9% are black and Hispanic" (Kozol, 170-171) A school that has beautiful, new equipment that shows its population of 91% white students that the stars are the limit. By contrast, just a few neighborhoods away in the South Bronx, a place commonly known for being full people of color living in poverty, “1,300 children did not even have a school but an abandoned skating rink that had no windows…” (Kozol, 171-172) This horrifying excuse for a learning environment filled with students who are mostly black and Hispanic compared to the new, well funded school filled with white students. All things considered, when education systems know white students will be attending a certain school they are more likely to provide better education that, because of segregation and any biases toward people of color or those living in poverty, are not supplied to many children of