Resegregation of Schools a Disheartening Trend

TheProgressive.org posted an excellent piece about the steady creep towards the re-segregation of public schools. The editorial, written by Fred McKissack, makes a point of stating that desegregation in our times is not a matter of public correctness but of equity in education. Minority concentrated schools receive less funding and perform lower overall to white majority schools.

“In the 2006-07 school year, more than 50 years after the Supreme Court’s landmark desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, approximately 40 percent of black and Latino students attended schools that were 90 to 100 percent minority.”

An interesting point that McKissack made is worth repeating. While some people in our society like to extol the virtue of perseverance and boot-strap pulling resourcefulness (traits not exclusive to race or ethnicity), those virtues are individual traits and should not be a “forced way of life for an entire race.”

You can read the entire piece HERE, it’s a good read.