In the year of 2016 most would like to believe the term ‘Racial Segregation’ is no longer useful or used within our vocabulary. In a perfect world, a term like ‘Racial Segregation’ wouldn’t have to be used, but we are not living within a perfect world. In our non perfect world, people like to believe that Racial Segregation is no longer a thing, but in all reality it is very alive, and thriving. In San Francisco Unified School District, Racial Segregation is plaguing our system
The Lottery system was institutionalized in 2011 within SFUSD, the sole purpose of this system was to help diversify the schools in the district. How this works is parent’s K through 12th grade before their child’s kindergarten, sixth grade and ninth grade year choose …show more content…
Money forever and always will play a huge part within education, it is what gives the youth opportunity and amazing resources; but where is the money within our public schools? While each public schools receives money from the state, that funding affects each school differently due to numerous reasonings; the biggest reasoning being because of PTA Fundraising and Private money donations. For example, back in 2010 when the biggest budget cuts were in place, school funding dropped from 113 million to only 13 million for SFUSD public schools. Each school took there hits with this cut, but two schools in the SFUSD district were affected very differently: Gratton Elementary and Junipero Serra Elementary, as stated by Jeremey Adam Smith in a San Francisco Public Press Article, “But the belt tightening did not hurt the two schools equally. Cheung (principle of Junipero Serra) was forced to lay off staff and take other drastic steps, like freezing supply purchases for a year. By contrast, Reedy (Principle of Gratton Elementary) hired new staff and expanded his school’s academic programs, helping raise standardized test scores.” How was it that these schools were affected so differently? Due to the Gratton being a school with high population of wealthy families, this let’s families be more involved with their children's schooling. …show more content…
As mentioned about the case Johnson v. SFUSD in 1969, once they school district sided with him to segregate the schools, SFUSD say a drop of enrollment of thirty two thousand students mostly of Asian and White Ethnic origins. This tends to happen recurrently with white students, it has become know as “White Flight.” What this means is when something happens within the district such as a diversifying initiative, white families will typically have the money to pull their children out of public school and into private or a whole other
The Lottery system was institutionalized in 2011 within SFUSD, the sole purpose of this system was to help diversify the schools in the district. How this works is parent’s K through 12th grade before their child’s kindergarten, sixth grade and ninth grade year choose …show more content…
Money forever and always will play a huge part within education, it is what gives the youth opportunity and amazing resources; but where is the money within our public schools? While each public schools receives money from the state, that funding affects each school differently due to numerous reasonings; the biggest reasoning being because of PTA Fundraising and Private money donations. For example, back in 2010 when the biggest budget cuts were in place, school funding dropped from 113 million to only 13 million for SFUSD public schools. Each school took there hits with this cut, but two schools in the SFUSD district were affected very differently: Gratton Elementary and Junipero Serra Elementary, as stated by Jeremey Adam Smith in a San Francisco Public Press Article, “But the belt tightening did not hurt the two schools equally. Cheung (principle of Junipero Serra) was forced to lay off staff and take other drastic steps, like freezing supply purchases for a year. By contrast, Reedy (Principle of Gratton Elementary) hired new staff and expanded his school’s academic programs, helping raise standardized test scores.” How was it that these schools were affected so differently? Due to the Gratton being a school with high population of wealthy families, this let’s families be more involved with their children's schooling. …show more content…
As mentioned about the case Johnson v. SFUSD in 1969, once they school district sided with him to segregate the schools, SFUSD say a drop of enrollment of thirty two thousand students mostly of Asian and White Ethnic origins. This tends to happen recurrently with white students, it has become know as “White Flight.” What this means is when something happens within the district such as a diversifying initiative, white families will typically have the money to pull their children out of public school and into private or a whole other