Why We Have Segregated Schools
School Segregation There have been numerous controversies concerning segregating schools over decades of years. Students and the parents of students of segregated schools have brought this issue to the light for the courts to see, hoping that the students who are being forced to attend schools of less quality than their peers can have equal rights so that they can go to the schools of higher quality. This issue in American education is still a problem to this day. American history and its role in segregation of schools should encourage, not only the people affiliated with the school system, but the school’s community to want equal opportunities for all students not matter their race. The most notable education court case for a student’s
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Board of Education is possibly one of the most important cases of all time in America. Justice Stephen Breyer said,
Brown held out a promise. It was a promise embodied in three Amendments designed to make citizens of slaves. It was a promise of true racial equality-not as a matter of fine words on a paper, but as a matter of everyday life in the Nation’s cities and schools. It was about the nature of democracy that must work for all Americans. It sought one law, one Nation, one people, not simply as a matter of legal principle but in terms of how we actually live. (Restoring the Promise of Brown, …show more content…
(Hilbert, 2004) Jim Hilbert says, “In a joint policy on diversity, the United States Departments of Education and Justice acknowledged the importance of diversity and ‘inclusive educational opportunities’ to ‘achieving the nation’s educational and civic goals’ (135).” Hilbert explains that promoting cross-racial understanding shows educational and civic benefits. Not only are non-segregated schools civically beneficial, but Hilbert also states that, “Study after study shows that interracial prejudice diminishes with intergroup racial contract (139). Desegregated schools are specifically linked to a reduction in students’ willingness to accept stereotypes (140).” With having a reduced amount of students stereotyping one another, it will reduce the amount of race conflict that is going on in today’s
Board of Education is possibly one of the most important cases of all time in America. Justice Stephen Breyer said,
Brown held out a promise. It was a promise embodied in three Amendments designed to make citizens of slaves. It was a promise of true racial equality-not as a matter of fine words on a paper, but as a matter of everyday life in the Nation’s cities and schools. It was about the nature of democracy that must work for all Americans. It sought one law, one Nation, one people, not simply as a matter of legal principle but in terms of how we actually live. (Restoring the Promise of Brown, …show more content…
(Hilbert, 2004) Jim Hilbert says, “In a joint policy on diversity, the United States Departments of Education and Justice acknowledged the importance of diversity and ‘inclusive educational opportunities’ to ‘achieving the nation’s educational and civic goals’ (135).” Hilbert explains that promoting cross-racial understanding shows educational and civic benefits. Not only are non-segregated schools civically beneficial, but Hilbert also states that, “Study after study shows that interracial prejudice diminishes with intergroup racial contract (139). Desegregated schools are specifically linked to a reduction in students’ willingness to accept stereotypes (140).” With having a reduced amount of students stereotyping one another, it will reduce the amount of race conflict that is going on in today’s