Posted on 08/20/2014 5:35:23 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Back-to-school is just around the corner and 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, many children will be returning to “resegregated” schools. The anniversary year has prompted much investigation and analysis, most pointing toward waning enforcement of integration orders. But what if integration itself is part of the problem?
As a young girl in Bainbridge, Ga., I attended segregated schools two years before the 1954 Brown ruling and six years after. My teachers and school administrators lived in our neighborhood and knew my parents. These educators had high expectations for us and were daily role models and cheerleaders for our success. I had a rich, balanced educational experience rooted in strong cultural awareness. Then we moved to Sacramento, Calif. It was 1960, and my parents were warned that the segregated schools were inferior to the integrated schools and that I would probably have to repeat eighth grade. It was true that my segregated school didn’t have the modern facilities and equipment available to white students on the other side of the tracks, but I breezed through ninth grade and performed equally well in high school.
But still, something was lost. I had excellent teachers, but Black teachers and counselors disappeared from my academic life. Despite my good grades, my high school counselor had low expectations for my future, encouraging me to become a nurse’s aide or secretary. She didn’t think of me as college material.
Fast-forward 60 years and a big question looms large: Is it possible that integration was actually a major setback for Black educators and students?
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To help make up for the disparity, politicians created Affirmative Action — another Liberal failure.
Oh, but nobody cares about them.
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It’s of no consequence to liberals and the like...
Not all schools were segregated back then. I never went to a segregated school as we had both blacks and Latinos in our classes.
It was only after my dad dragged us kicking and screaming from the Rockies to the Ozarks, and we hit here just as Little Rock blew up. I then asked dad “What is segregation?” When he told me I could not comprehend it!
Forty years after Little Rock, one of the black girls who desegregated the school went back and was shocked at what she found.
The White kids were attentive and listened, the Black kids put their heads on the desks.
Her thoughts were..”I put MY LIFE on the line to allow BLACK KIDS to go to WHITE SCHOOLS, so they could put their heads on the desks and REFUSE to learn?” (Her exact words were “I put my life on the line for THIS?”).
With half of the households on government assistance and trillions of dollars spent, the "war on poverty" has been a colossal failure. Cut and run.
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