Education is important. It’s the foundation of knowledge, and it plays a pivotal role in everyone’s future. This is commonly accepted knowledge to nearly everyone. So, you’d think that schooling systems would do everything to provide a sturdy foundation for all students, right? Wrong.
Sixty-two years ago in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, The United States Supreme Court ruled the education policy of “separate but equal” to be unconstitutional. Since then, we’ve dropped the “separation,” but the inequality in America’s education system still remains. Children of color have a greater chance of being suspended. Children of color have a greater chance of being taught by inexperienced, lower paid teachers. Children of color have either less access to or less encouragement to take rigorous courses.
Kandice Sumner, and elementary teacher at a predominantly African-American school
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States and districts didn’t change the system because it was the right thing to do, but because they could gain money and keep from trouble.
Obama’s adjustments to Bush’s reform have given districts the power to intervene instead of the government. This means that the still existing issues are not all on the schools. It is also up to communities, to individuals, to you. Everyone is at fault here, and the longer we take to put pressure on these failing districts, the longer it will take to provide all students with an equal foundation.
The fact of the matter is, we tell our children to “shoot for the moon,” but then we only give some of them rockets. The rest of them coast through the stratosphere because they haven’t been shown that they can go even higher. The welfare of our nation’s future depends on how we treat the people who will be running it in the present. What will you do to make our schools a place where every single child — regardless of skin color — has an equal opportunity to