School Segregation

After reading an article from Skye’s Government Blog named Desegregating Schools I agreed with the author Skye Garcia, who writes about how in todays society school segregation is a major problem in the education of high and low class schools. 

I personally have seen this division first hand as well, when I used to substitute as a bilingual teacher at Lake Travis Independent School District. Since LTISD is such a huge school and covers many neighborhoods each neighboorhood has its own schools, the lower class neighborhoods and the upper class neighborhoods which have different standards towards their students. Looking at the differences at school agendas from the low and high income it was apparent to me that the higher income neighborhoods had higher standards for their students performance, than the low income neighborhoods. For example, one of the high income schools had first grade students learning about SAT words, more after schools activities, and high tech electronics; where in the low income neighborhood school first grade students didn’t have this type of resources. I agree with the author, “It is true our schools resources seem more and more to be given to the schools with higher income families,” than with the low income families who also need this type of recourses to be successful in life. 

The article is well written and it targets the importance of education segregation in our communities. I agree with the ending paragraph, “We should put a national system into place where all schools rich and poor get the same quality of learning,” it is a fundamental tool for children of today to be successful in their future.