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piercehawkeye45 · 06-29-2007, 04:44 PM

This is a very tough situation that we probably should have avoided in the first place.

It is very common knowledge that inner city schools are much worse than suburban or schools out in the country. 1 in 6 minorities go to a school that is 99% or 100% black and Latino.

Basically what we have is deadly cycle that keeps itself in place. The minorities get a very bad education with no motivation to succeed so they naturally drop out and stay in the inner city where their kids will repeat the process. The suburban kids get a very good education (to our standards at least) with a lot of motivation to succeed so they naturally go to college and live in the suburbs where their kids will repeat the process.

This is a very strong argument for the integration of schools to break up this process and to just say "fuck you" to the inner city kids is unacceptable and is the cause of a lot of the problems we see today in the inner city.

The problem with integration of schools is that someone has to pick who will be integrated, who will go to a better school and who will go to the bad school, and that everyone will be going home to a homogenous neighborhood anyways.

I believe something should be done to work on integrating society as a whole and this is one possible step but I don't think it is effective as many think it is. There should be other ways. Separate but equal is never acceptable though.

06-29-2007, 04:44 PM	#6
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	This is a very tough situation that we probably should have avoided in the first place. It is very common knowledge that inner city schools are much worse than suburban or schools out in the country. 1 in 6 minorities go to a school that is 99% or 100% black and Latino. Basically what we have is deadly cycle that keeps itself in place. The minorities get a very bad education with no motivation to succeed so they naturally drop out and stay in the inner city where their kids will repeat the process. The suburban kids get a very good education (to our standards at least) with a lot of motivation to succeed so they naturally go to college and live in the suburbs where their kids will repeat the process. This is a very strong argument for the integration of schools to break up this process and to just say "fuck you" to the inner city kids is unacceptable and is the cause of a lot of the problems we see today in the inner city. The problem with integration of schools is that someone has to pick who will be integrated, who will go to a better school and who will go to the bad school, and that everyone will be going home to a homogenous neighborhood anyways. I believe something should be done to work on integrating society as a whole and this is one possible step but I don't think it is effective as many think it is. There should be other ways. Separate but equal is never acceptable though.