Brown Vs. Board Scheduling: Segregating The Education System

The Brown vs. Board ruling is very applicable to this current day segregation. Although a different force is segregating the education system, it is still having the same affect. Right now, all public schools are "equal"; however, many are segregated by de facto segregation. The Brown vs. Board ruling stated the separate will never be equal. This means that public schools that are made up of African Americans are not truly equal. Under the principles of the Brown decision, students in a primarily minority school can never receive the same level of education as they would receive in a more diverse school. The fact that the students are segregated limits their exposure to others and makes them feel inferior. These students then receive a lower

A study that surveyed juniors and seniors in public and private high schools around America found troubling details about the state of America's education system. 77 percent of students surveyed stated they feel there is racism in their school. On top of that, 42 percent of students surveyed indicated they have been discriminated against based on their race. 44 percent of the students recorded they felt administrators and teachers discriminate students because of their race, and 32 percent believe racism has an effect on the education system (Schroeder). This study demonstrates how far the education system is from racial equality. This racial segregation in the Minnesotan school system has extremely adverse effects towards students of color. The exodus of white students from primarily black schools leads to a drop in the number of students attending the primarily black schools. As attendance drops, funding goes down with it. This decrease in funding severely decreases the quality of education for those schools. This is essentially creating segregated black and white schools, with the white schools receiving more funding than the black schools

Predominately minority schools tend to be overcrowded and have a much higher population. On average, minority schools are more than twice as large as white schools, often reaching a student body of over 3,000 in most inner cities. On top of that, class sizes are on average 15 percent larger overall, and materials are lower quality. Another disadvantage of predominately minority schools is the fact that teachers are much less qualified in terms of levels of training and certification. All of this leads to the education at predominately African American schools being a much lower quality than the education at predominately white schools