I chose to upload a photo that represents the problem of
segregation in the schools of Selma. I was very surprised to find that Selma’s
private school only consists of 1% minority students, whereas the public school
consists of 99% minority students. Not only are their schools not integrated,
they’re not even desegregated. When we
watched the RATCO documentary, we learned that, for many of the kids, RATCO is
the only time when they play with kids of a different skin color. How sad is it
that in 2015 it’s still acceptable to have schools that are so blatantly
segregated.
I’ve had
interesting experiences with school integration in my hometown. In Eagan, the
elementary school you go to depends on where you live. My elementary school
encompassed a lower-income neighborhood and had a much larger percentage of
minorities than the surrounding schools. I never thought anything of it until I
went to middle school and heard everyone refer to my elementary school as
“ghetto”. My elementary school received
the exact funding that the other schools received, and was the exact same model
as the others, but the only difference that mine had more minorities.
Additionally a couple years after I’d left the
elementary school, the district was getting into legal trouble because of the
radical concentration of all the minorities in a single school. Instead of
trying to do a better job at integrating the schools, the district had a
different idea. They converted my elementary school into a “magnet school”
which meant, legally, it could have a larger number of minorities than the
other schools in the area. Racial segregation is present in many different
forms all over America.
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