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Brown vs. the Board of Education led the way for people of color to receive the same quality of education as whites did and to abolish segregation indefinantely. Thus, the learning gap between those of color and those that are white began to decrease. But now were back to a large gap and it's not improving. People say we need to accomodate Latinos and African-Americans or browns and blacks with a special education system with their color in mind. I pretty much say BS! The article did bring up a good point that poor teachers parallel the low reading and math scores, as well as over-populated schools. Just another excuse for covering up the real problem in the education system. It has nothing to do with race. It is more an economic issue and proper guidance from the older generations. Professionals that earned their degrees at a college to be a teacher are not being teachers. The reason why one blames the wide education gap on race because most schools of poor composition contain "minorities." People of color are labelled as minorities because they are under-represented in Congress. In order to gain support from "minorities" we must have a say in congress. Better education equals a good deal of money. A bad education equals insufficent funds or tax dollars directed towards learning. In the end, it comes down to an economic issue. What if Beverly Hills was made up of poor white trash (no offence) and Compton was compromised of rich, well-educated brown and black people? Would color be the problem or would it be economic? We call ourselves the human race, but we hardly act like it. We divide humans by the melatonin levels in their system ( body color) and call them races. We are one race: human. When we understand this, we understand what a support system means and how it works. Instead, of making excuses to avoid taking responsibility for something that really matters: education.
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You bring up a really interesting point Xavi. The irony of it is that segregated measures, as you mentioned in your blog post, are being deemed necessary to be taken in order to unsegregate the gap in education. On a multi-cultural level, I think it is important to understand that although there are an infinite number of exceptions to stereotypes, statistically our nation is not delegating equal education on the state level to certain racial minorities.
What really sparked a response in me for your post was looking at what we talked about today in Gov. A lot of times we need to look at how we separate ourselves as human beings into racial communities. Education falls into the place of where we live.
So after reading your article, what do you propose can be done or suggested to close this gap of educational segregation?
i agree in that our education system definitely needs help. This goes for all across the nation not just in areas heavily populated by minorities.
but i still think it is important for us not to undermine the hardships that minorities can experience in attaining a good education. For instance the income gap largely hinders many minorities from attaining a decent education. it is also often more difficult for kids of immigrants to get ahead or have the same opporunities.
so although ameliorating our educational system should be at the top of our lists we can't just dismiss any racial differences or racial advantages as things of the past.
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