Racial Desegregation In American Schools

The school that I attended was a primarily white student school with about one tenth of each grade being Hispanic. Our teaching staff was also primarily white with a few Hispanic teachers in the whole school. During school, we were all in the same classes. In my Spanish class, my teacher used the opportunity of having a mixed class to her advantage. When we were allowed to pick our own groups, she encouraged that the Hispanics and the white kids worked together instead of being separated. This has caused me to create some life long friends that I otherwise would not have talked to. Other teachers picked groups for us, forcing us to work with the people that we would never have worked with. This allowed me to get close to all of my classmates and have a better understanding about them. My history and english classes put a lot of emphasis on how people differ racially, ethnically, and by social class. Coming from a smaller school and being able to get along with everyone, I did not even notice a difference between one student from another. We did not let the color of our skin, our beliefs or the amount of money we had affect the views that we had of each other. In my grade we had a few students who were mainstreamed. Children with disabilities were is some of my general classes and took some of their other …show more content…
As stated before, my school was primarily white with about ten percent of each class being Hispanic. When I was in grade school this only had somewhat of an impact on my schooling, but by high school, I was influenced greatly by having Hispanics in my class. We became good friends in school and helped each other with our school work. Whenever I needed help with my Spanish homework, they would help me and I would help them with their math homework. This had a huge impact on my learning in Spanish. Also they taught me about some of the traditions they did back