The Pros And Cons Of Color Schools

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The fact the some say that school children although separate in appearance they are equal in learning is a terrible misconception, many of us believe that our school is a magic fairy tale where everyone is perfect and equal and if your are of color you have the same easy opportunities as your white counterparts this is a joke. the truth of the matter is in the past and even today, being of color has a negative effect in the quality of learning. Schools of color are as strong as a community as that of white majority schools but they don’t always have the same sort of resources as there fellow schools, from under funding to not having exctracracular classes the color schools are at a disadvantage. Its not that the children of color are incapable of learning at a high level but that they are not given or introduced to it.
In many cases the children in colored schools are under-funded this has show up excpecially in the past where student's of color were learning on
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As we know learning out of something that is more outdated and sometimes either disproven or irrelevant is not as an effective way to learn in any subject. Therefore the quality of learning is downgraded but this is not the worst part, not only did parents want segregated schools but the sate also, during the 1950s and 60s things were brutally unequal. Take for example an article written by Nikole Jones titled segregation, in it she goes in to great detail of the life of James dent a black student who experience segregated schools first hand he recalls when, "Some states helped fund the all-white academies popping up across the south. State officials encouraged white parents to remove the children from public schools, helping to set off the

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