“It’s about bringing community back. It’s about bringing school back to our community,” says Norman Browning, Chair of City of St. George Incorporation effort. Those words, presented in Frontline: Separate and Unequal. The issue is to incorporate East Baton Rough Parish into a new city called St. George. Frontline portrayed this as a race issue which is not. I believe in the equality of opportunity for each student to get the best education regardless of education. The frontline narrator, Will Lyman, observes the separation will leave Baton Rouge with a big annual debt. The St. George will be different from Baton Rouge, since it will be mainly a middle class, which is 70% white population. The documentary might show that they want to separate themselves from the low-income community, but the parents, just actually wants the best education for their children. “I am not
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FedEx Manager Nikki, a single mother with three sons, who take different buses to go to school all over Baton Rouge. She thinks that “the benefit of the kids going to schools with different cultures, with children that have different economic backgrounds, they see a better life and they can say, ‘Okay, what can I do to have a better life?’ They can dream bigger.” Regardless of skin color or status in life, everyone should allow to go to their preference school. Separate and Unequal is a brilliant but a sad documentary. Both sides of the argument are valid. All children education matters. We have to support our kids and give the best education for them. I understand the St. George parents as well as the Baton Rough residents, why they opposed this segregation. During the meeting with the mayor, a St. George supporter asked, “Why would you want to oppose letting these people of this area, to vote on this issue?” Mayor Holden answers, “Because, first of all, Baton Rouge comes so far, as a united city. I’m against division, when it’s not
FedEx Manager Nikki, a single mother with three sons, who take different buses to go to school all over Baton Rouge. She thinks that “the benefit of the kids going to schools with different cultures, with children that have different economic backgrounds, they see a better life and they can say, ‘Okay, what can I do to have a better life?’ They can dream bigger.” Regardless of skin color or status in life, everyone should allow to go to their preference school. Separate and Unequal is a brilliant but a sad documentary. Both sides of the argument are valid. All children education matters. We have to support our kids and give the best education for them. I understand the St. George parents as well as the Baton Rough residents, why they opposed this segregation. During the meeting with the mayor, a St. George supporter asked, “Why would you want to oppose letting these people of this area, to vote on this issue?” Mayor Holden answers, “Because, first of all, Baton Rouge comes so far, as a united city. I’m against division, when it’s not