Comments on: 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s

By: Confederates Won!

Confederates Won! — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:30:00 +0000

I agree in which you say “millionaires pay the majority of all taxes”, but millionaires have nothing to do with segregation in education. Welfare and all these other *helpful resources* are being taken for granted and people abuse of it. It is no ethnicity’s fault, but how corrupt the government has become. I do not go to a segregated school, but yet I’m Mexican. Everyone can receive a great education, but it also depends how much hope the person has. I go to one of the top 10 high schools in California and the majority of us are Latinos. Not a Private School! Everyone can strive for the better.

By: Pinkballetshoesxoxo

Pinkballetshoesxoxo — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:01:00 +0000

I honestly think the school system isn’t at fault for the students under achievements. But the students themselves ruin it for themselves. I attended a high school in los angeles that was 50% black, 30% Hispanic and 20% other. Every one got the same education received the same classes. But while the black people spent their time in class asleep wrote on the books issued to them, tagged the schools wall, the white and Asian kids spent their time involved in school activities, they spent their lunch time studying or doing homework. they took mostly honers and ap classes. and they didn’t tag on the walls or destroyed school property. The school I attended was once one of the best high schools in Los Angeles, everyone wanted to go there. But when the schools had to be unsegregated the school had to bring student from minority communities. Those students brought low test scores didn’t care much about anything and ruin it for the current students. Slowly white students began to leave and the school that once had the highest test scores had the lowest. I always saw the white students at my high school actually care and they always got involved they had the same materials and same teachers as the black and hispanic kids but why did they actually care? Blacks began to form gangs, and there was always fights at my school. I never blamed the school but the students the students are the once that make the difference the materials are given to us,and is our job to make whats best of what we have not ruin it. I strongly feel that students who do not want to go to school to actually learn shouldn’t go. What good do they bring? they lower test scores, and waste tax money. I see many minorities ruin what once were good schools. not all of them do, but most do. I feel that “good schools” shouldn’t be ruin by minorities, because thats what is happening but the minorities that actually want to learn and participate in school activities should be welcomed. Why is the government forcing students to go to school if they don’t want to? Instead of wasting their time sleeping in class rooms they should work and pay taxes.

By: Young&Determined

Young&Determined — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:54:00 +0000

You aren’t very intelligent are you? I’m sorry to tell this to you this hun but not all black people act a certain way, and the ones who do don’t know any better. Some of them have never stepped outside of the ghetto and some of them never will. So tell me, how are they supposed to learn any better if they aren’t given an opportunity to do so? Is the knowledge of how to live a more quality life than what they have learned all their lives for generations supposed to just fall out of the sky and into their brains? Are they supposed to just wake up one day and just decide to undo what has been done for hundreds of years? NO!! That is humanly impossible. That takes time and opportunity, which is something that many young black kids don’t have nor know how to get. Many of them will never have the chance to even gain an opportunity to become something because they will die at a young age for being black. For example TRAVON MARTIN!!

By: Thecoutz

Thecoutz — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:03:00 +0000

I think that they still suffer because of their attitudes and actions. I also think it is their fault things are still like they are. If they would change the way they act and make their areas safer they would change their lives and those not here yet. I grow up in the hood and have seen this first hand.

By: preetyeyez

preetyeyez — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:20:00 +0000

i feel that this is a very touchy subject. there is no such thing as black on white crime or vice versa. u like who u like. i am an african amerian. my mom is black and indian. and my dad is black and jamican. but just about all my friends are a different race then me. i am social. theres black people hating their own race for stupid reason. there are whites hating the fact of issolation. life is too short to be discriminating aginst someone becuz of the way they look, or the color of their skin. i can go on and on about why racism is wrong, but i dont have the time. people fear what they dont understand, and they hate what they fear. but just because its different dont meant that its better or worse. all it means is that its human.. if we were all perfect we wouldnt be here because a perfect man or women could not exist in an unperfect world..so be who u are and love who you are. who ever dont like it, the hell with them.

By: Hannahcstone

Hannahcstone — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:42:00 +0000

i think we should all be in schools together not to be seperatedd some people become best friends in schools so i think we sould not let only be the whites be speciel but i think all should be speciel!!!!!!!

By: MikeC

MikeC — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:17:00 +0000

Guys… 500 years of racial dictatorship. 500 years of legally discriminating, stealing land, killing, abusing for slave labor — 50 years of democracy where racism is still institutionalized. Just because segregation was made illegal… does not mean everything went to equal. There are still years and generations of wealth and fortune not given to people of color.

By: Jordanpk96

Jordanpk96 — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:20:00 +0000

funding in united states school systems reflect growing residential segregation. the fact is… this also leads to racial segregation due to our history of discrimination against minorities. funding the schools (mostly inner city and rural) that really need it is the answer. this does not mean stop funding other public schools however. this takes us to a bigger issue regarding the taxation of the wealthy. (they should no doubt be taxed more) in order to fund public schools and help the children of America succeed, we must spend our taxes on schools and other projects that protect those who need a chance at opportunity. I can speak firsthand, having moved from the inner city to the suburbs. I saw a dramatic change and realized the truth. my level of education has increased and it’s not right. ( im not saying thats a bad thing, im just saying its unfair that i couldnt get as good of an education in the city schools) Also the number of minorities attending my new school is much less. equal opportunity who’s with me!!?

By: Dfieufhjhudkfjeh

Dfieufhjhudkfjeh — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:17:00 +0000

this was a great article! why in the world do we have segregation? it is just not fair!

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:10:00 +0000

Wow. What small town did you come from?