Segregation In School

Advancements in education are ever changing, and are said to be prioritized in almost every country on earth. However, there are many factors involved in education that are only triumphant in theory. The Brown decision was implemented in the United States over half a century ago, in 1954; the idea was aimed to dismantle segregation in public schools, as a tool to fight racism, as well as achievement gaps between students of different ethnic backgrounds (Wells et al, 2004). Although desegregation was an explicitly required action following more recent rises of meritocracy, the law has failed in a more abstract way: being unsuccessful in social policies, such as attitudes towards ethnic minorities in public schools (Wells et al, 2004). The high school that I attended …show more content…
Not only was this friend a poor source of credible information, but she had stated verbatim that she was a third party, with no connection to the people involved. Drawing on Pietsch’s (2013) idea, female black students, in contrast to white students and even black male student, experience unique oppression, both from race and gender and thus require resolutions specific to this fact. I had protested against this, and offered my knowledge of the altercation, but was instructed to “go back to class and learn.”. This is an example of the colour of my skin contributing to my achievement in school. Additionally, this example proves Monkman’s (2011) argument that while young women have more access to education, the quality of discourse which they are being exposed to is not equal to that of men. While the situation may seem intimate to my friends, similar situations may be happening in public schools all across Canada. Education should not be prioritized with respect to ethnicity, and even in a seemingly diverse schools, segregation