How are schools integrated?

 

In the famous U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, we win in making school segregation illegal. So why are we still struggling with this concept today?

We have learned throughout the module some intriguing and a little disturbing concepts and history facts. Red lining separated white neighborhoods from minority neighborhoods. Minorities or people on the red side were given little to zero loans, benefits, and could never get the chance to cross over to the green side or white neighborhoods. Why? To put it simple it was strictly because of their skin color. So, then the green side gets higher, more prosperous, and wealthier while the red side decays. This same thing carries on to today’s world and we have yet to do much about it… This same idea follows to the school system. The schools are not all integrated and some put on this false advertisement it. I know it is a silly reference but in the TV show Shameless this is literally shown in the episode. The private school takes in the younger brother Liam because he is a black kid from the South side. They use him as a representation of a “integrated school.” He is actually the only black kid in the school, and they do not even try to include a curriculum about his culture or past. They just use him for photos of the school so they can just check a box. The sad thing is this will happen in real life too. Schools will get their percentage and consider it enough. All students from different ethnicities, wealth, culture, and statuses should be under the same roof. Having schools strictly in the red zone can effect not only the students but the teachers too. Teachers will be underequipped and will be expected to make all students perfectly equipped for the oncoming challenges. This is not fair to anyone! We as future teachers need to stand up for the red side and even out the playing fields because the schools truly aren’t integrated. And if they are it is usually not well done or too expensive for others.