Seperate but, equal was ruled unjust in Brown vs. The Board of Education, but, does that mean that schools can't just be seperate. According to not only new legislation attempting to be passed by Nebreska and the corrupt way our schools are funded segregation in public education is on the rise.
I can't truly express the feelings of disgust I feel with I think of how corruptly funded our schools are. The funding of schools is based on property taxes, therefore rich neighborhoods have rich schools and poor neighborhoods have poor schools. This shouldn't have an affect on education according to the various studies that are turned out by republicans calling money "static". The wealthy state that money would not make a difference to poor children, it would just be throwing money into a black hole and that it shouldn't be tried. What they don't say is that money makes a difference to rich children? Now what I have yet to hit on is the race of wealthy and poor students in public schools. Schools tend to be put into two sub-categories when pertaining to funding and segregation urban schools and suburban schools. Suburban schools being predominantly white are often the wealthier schools. Urban schools which tend to be located in the inner city of large cities tend to be almost entirely minorities which of these generally are Black and Latino children. So then in the inner cities where sometimes the average income is sometimes around 15,000 a year, the amount of money a school has is severely limmited. Measures have been attempted to past to right the funding indifferences in New Jersey, but the measure never got anywhere no one wanted there children to lose money, for other schools. The bottom line is schools are now being segregated by economic statue which tends to lead to racial segregation, which means then that the rich are staying rich and the poor are staying poor without a chance. If you ever go to an inner city school take a look around and what often is disrepair (with no money to repair it) then maybe check a phone book and drive 40 minutes and find a nice new suburban school looking very nice and new, and compare the difference in the schools and tell me if its equal.
What trumps the segregation of schooling by economic stature is the segregation of schooling by legislation passed in Nebreska. In Omaha City a plan to segregate schools passed 31-16 (
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so that while the three districts may be funded equally there is the potential for them to be funded very unevenly. So now we have again been brought back to seperate and unequal. The Civil Rights Movement, appears to have been in vain because were recreating the circumstances that were fought agaisnt. Welcome to America, land of the "free".