Discrimination In Residential Schools

The magnitude of an achievement is based off of how much opposition attempted to prevent the achievement. This opposition can come not only from reaching the achievement, but secondary obstacles as well. For instance, if a winner of a race had the flu, the magnitude of that win is amplified by the sickness going against them. Likewise, if a student had little to no resources and still scored highly on the ACT or SAT, the number they were given is amplified by the lack of help in their preparation. In the US, there is a huge debate about Affirmative Action, which basically states that race counts as opposition to an achievement and should be taken into account when looking at an applicant’s achievements, whether for a job or college. The debate …show more content…
The real issue with this segregation is majority white schools have more services and opportunities for students than majority non-white schools. Additionally, these schools are assigned the least proficient teachers and are often unsafe. Students attending these schools do not have as good of an education as students attending majority white schools. However, minorities still face discrimination in integrated schools, where many teachers have extremely low expectations for minority students. Schools that have multiple curriculum tracks tend to have a high percentage of minorities in lower tracks, which make those students less desirable in college …show more content…
This racial stigma is caused mainly by statistical discrimination. Statistical discrimination is when people see multiple times on the news that “a polish man has robbed a grocery store,” they are more likely to think that all polish men are thieves. This is exactly what happens with minorities and many whites have an aversion to minorities because they believe that they could be dangerous simply because they read a statistic or read a story in the newspaper. Not only do other people think that minority children will fail, but the constant stigma against them can lead many minority children to believe that they will fail because of their race. Succeeding with all of these obstacles is no easy task for a person, but it is not the only reason that colleges consider race in