The Supreme Court rules racial segregation in public education unconstitutional. During, the case of Brown vs.. Board of Education the phrase “separate, but equal” was the terms on which the Board of Education found segregated schools “equal”. Though segregated schools are no longer legal is our education system by any means equal? Are under privileged and minority children receiving the same education as those in uppity and primarily white communities?
Research shows they are not, so are we still living off of the phrase “separate, but equal” to keep our minds at ease to]justly our ignorant minds as our education yester fails the poorer minorities? These children are handed three things: A lack of encouragement from adults that expect them to fail, lack of funding and the expectation that they will drop out without reaching the goal of graduation. By no means are these three expectations equal to those of privileged and primarily white students given; encouragement, supplies to succeed and a college track for knowledge that they will receive that diploma.
Tatum’s teachings of racism In stereotypes, omissions, distortions, and Internalized racism can be applied to teachers in underprivileged schools, the educators tend to tottery those of minority backgrounds as not smart and not worth the time to educate due to the fact that they have a lower rate of graduating. Because of this belief, teachers they lack the ability to be encouraging to their students. “Research has shown that educators tend to hold lower expectations for minority students according to Datum. ” (The Racial Inequalities of Our Educational System, Jessica L. Collins. Schools that are underprivileged tend to also be under staffed in physical body and mind, they lack physical bodies of teachers along with the fact these schools have teachers teaching subjects they know very little about, but also teachers who are not certified. Another seen problem is that that racial make up of the educators rarely match those of the students making It hard for the students and teachers to connect, being seen as privileged adults and under privileged children going no where, Due to lack of funding students in under privileged schools are not receiving adequate materials to be taught up to date and correctly.
These students now lack encouragement and materials two very vital and necessary things needed to make it Norton ten coeducation system. According to coeducation. Com, cocoons Tort poor canceller and children of color are inadequately secure, staffed and funded. Because schools are funded primarily based on the test scores based on how well their students perform, poorer schools filled with minorities tend to test lower. Disadvantaged children score roughly below 10% below national average (Social Class in Public Schools, Jennifer L.
Household) hint the lack of funding. “There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old accountable’ for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before,” (The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Jonathan Kola).
Due to the lack of funding underprivileged schools are receiving they continue to test poorly, the students continue to receive discouragement to expand their minds, they continue to fail and live up to what their teachers expect of them which continues the vicious cycle of our nations underfeed schools. Say you and three other people were put in the middle of the ocean and it was a test of who would “sink” and who would “swim. Now, imagine the three other people were given boats, unevenly filled with supplies, but still boats and you, well you were Just handed an oar. Would you eventually “sink” or “swim? ” Chances are you would swim for as long as possible, but with the waves and the storms of the ocean an oar would not be enough to live for as long as you needed to “swim” for, so you would “sink” Just like the children who are forced into underprivileged schools “sink” or even worse o would “sink” because educators think you are less because the color of your skin.
According to, Jessica L. Collins’ essay, “Those of color are more likely to drop out (or be pushed out) of schools and less likely to graduate than white students. ” (The Racial Inequalities of Our Educational System, Jessica L. Collins) Because students are not in an encouraging environment, nor do they feel their education is important to anyone graduation rates drop, “In 2006 Chicago school district was required to make a list of failing schools 325 out of 595, predominately African American and Latino schools ere on the list. ” (education. Mom). How are our students supposed to make it through our system if we are giving them oars? Failing schools, discouraging, unqualified teachers, inhumane situations; How do we expect these students to graduate or even give them the belief that our system wants them to graduate because if I was Just handed an oar in the middle of an ocean when before I was always given a boat I know I would sink immediately. I guess the difference is these students have more fight than I would because they have always been handed an oar, never a boat.
In 1991, he described school conditions that would never be accepted in adequately funded European American schools: The school is 29% black, 70% Hispanic…. We sit and talk in the nurse’s room. The window is broken. There are two holes in the ceiling. About a quarter of the ceiling has been patched and covered with a plastic garbage Dig . “WI tense CNN Renee ever get win a went Kilos In ten sutured Tort granted? I don’t think so,” says the principal. “If you ask me why, I’d have to speak of race and social class. I don’t think that the powers that be in New York
City understand, or want to understand, that if they do not give these children a sufficient education to lead healthy, productive lives, we will be their victims later on. We’ll pay the price someday-?in violence, in economic costs,” (education. Com ) Just like this quote says, they don’t believe New York understands, or wants to understand, I don’t believe this country understands, “or wants to understand,” we just continue to fail these children as they slowly drop out making that graduation classes smaller and smaller.
So, can we truly say we have eliminated “separate, but equal” from our society or have we Just become better at hiding it? A rhetorical question of course in that we as a country, citizens, teachers, lawmakers, we as a whole are failing these students with our lack of attention to the true problems. Why should our youth be punished for being poor, black, Latino, brown? The answer is they shouldn’t be punished they should be lifted up.
They should be given more encouragement, given the belief that as hard as the waves may come at them as hard as the storm falls they should keep on swimming because right ahead is their boat, he boat of change that is filled with supplies for their success in that funding will no longer be based on test scores, but the fact that these children need it the most to succeed and in that they can use their oar and their boat filled with the supplies to paddle on to the day where they graduate and prove those who believe they aren’t worth their time wrong.
