In “A tale of two schools” by Maria Flemming, it talks about how a family named the Mendezes tried to apply to a neighborhood school. “An administrator looked the five children over. Alice and Virginia could stay, he said. But their dark-skinned cousins would have to register at the Hoover school, the town’s “mexican school” located a few blocks away”. In this case the dark-skinned children were forced to go to the mexican school which would cause the family transportation issues because it’s farther away. In these kinds of situations, the dark colored families had to struggle more than light skinned families who were welcomed everywhere. Having to struggle as a family would “put down” the kids because they would wonder why their families specifically had to struggle more than other families. With low self-esteem this would lead to other issues such as low graduation rates for people of color and less diversity in careers because student won’t want to go to school with fear that they’d be taunted. Students of color were clearly forced to struggle with issues they wouldn’t have to worry about if they were white. When the quote said “ Alice and Virginia could stay, he said”, this meant that because they were light skinned they were more welcomed into a predominantly white successful
In “A tale of two schools” by Maria Flemming, it talks about how a family named the Mendezes tried to apply to a neighborhood school. “An administrator looked the five children over. Alice and Virginia could stay, he said. But their dark-skinned cousins would have to register at the Hoover school, the town’s “mexican school” located a few blocks away”. In this case the dark-skinned children were forced to go to the mexican school which would cause the family transportation issues because it’s farther away. In these kinds of situations, the dark colored families had to struggle more than light skinned families who were welcomed everywhere. Having to struggle as a family would “put down” the kids because they would wonder why their families specifically had to struggle more than other families. With low self-esteem this would lead to other issues such as low graduation rates for people of color and less diversity in careers because student won’t want to go to school with fear that they’d be taunted. Students of color were clearly forced to struggle with issues they wouldn’t have to worry about if they were white. When the quote said “ Alice and Virginia could stay, he said”, this meant that because they were light skinned they were more welcomed into a predominantly white successful