How are Schools Integrated?

School segregation and education inequality are the results of racist school policies and individual choices. School integration in the United States is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools. Racial segregation in schools has existed throughout most of American history and still remains an issue in public and private schools.

There is a quote that I was told by a past teacher that I think relates to the topic of school segregation and education inequality. The quote is “Children get dealt grossly unequal hands, but that is all the more reason to treat them equally in school, Chris thought. "I think the cruelest form of prejudice is... if I ever said, 'Clarence is poor, so I'll expect less of him than Alice.' Maybe he won't do what Alice does. But I want his best." She knew that precept wasn't as simple as it sounded. Treating children equally often means treating them very differently. But it also means bringing the same moral force to bear on all of them, saying, in effect, to Clarence that you matter as much as Alice and won't get away with not working, and to Alice that you won't be allowed to stay where you are either.”

― Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren

It has been over six decades since the Supreme Court declared “separate but equal” schools to be unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. Schools still remain heavily segregated by race and ethnicity. School segregation needs to be put to an end.