In an
article by the New York Times, it talks about how children would do better in
schools if they were placed with middle class peers. However, with Black and
Hispanic children, people don’t want to integrate because of their racial and
ethnic background. Even though schools are no longer segregated, where children
go to school is mostly influenced by where they live. It just so happens that
Black and Hispanic children live in poorer neighborhoods because they are
discriminated against so they are not able to have equal opportunities. Black
and Hispanic children have to go to schools that are not educationally
beneficial towards them because they live in poorer parts of the neighborhood.
The article mainly talks about trying to have children living in poorer parts
of neighborhoods away from schools and into schools that will benefit them.
People say
that they want to help kids in schools who don’t have the same benefits but
it’s only confined to their own neighborhoods. It doesn’t help people still
living in poverty stricken areas, and it doesn’t even help the children. People
don’t want to say it’s because of race, but it still is.
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