Although schools of over a thousand students have flourished in America, when it comes to poorer neighborhoods, scores are profoundly low. I believe that despite the fact that my parents do not have enough money to send me to an opulent school with favorable circumstances, I should still have equal education opportunities. As history shows, It seems that the public school system is having the same problems that manifested themselves decades ago. We are slowly, but surely, returning to segregated schools where the better schools and the better educational opportunities are in suburbia, and the better schools are being attended by mainly white students, while urban schools are being attended by minority students. According to www.Pbs.org,“Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, a landmark piece of legislation that ensured all Americans equal protection under the law. This guaranteed that the nation’s public schools would allow black children to go to school alongside white children.” The Harvard reports that African-American students had integrated predominately white schools by 44% in 1988, but by 2011, the percentage of black students in majority white schools was 23.2%. Supreme Court Chief Justice, Earl Warren read the …show more content…
Board of Education never happened”, verbally expresses www.ProPublica.com. Brown v. Board of Education was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional and unequal. Although certain laws were passed, we are still facing segregation within schools because of the simple fact that lower income families have to suffer from receiving the lower-quality education. Harvard states that "Children growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods appear to be concretely disadvantaged when it comes to school