Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Unequal Neighborhoods and Schooling

            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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