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Why Does Segregation Still Exist In Education

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Anay Ceballos
Jon Stern
English Express P073X
March 8, 2015

Why does segregation still exist in education? Why can’t we all be treated equally?
When it comes to the topic of education discrimination, most of us will readily agree that teachers are teaching to students based on their ethnic background, instead of teaching all their students equally. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of wasn’t every human being created equal and are entitled to have the same rights as every other person. Whereas some are convinced that this unequal teaching has been a real big problem in our educational system turning it into a diverse and biased environment, others maintain that students are being discriminated by teachers/ schools …show more content…

In this paper, I will reveal how student’s achievements are being limited by schools, by exposing discrimination within the schools.
Throughout our history there has always been segregation that has caused unequal opportunities to students in education because of society. Society has been influenced and ruled by one group of race dominating all the others races, because of this Sadker claims that until “educational bias is eradicated, more than half our children will be short-changed and their gifts lost to society” (Sadker, 52). Because of one dominated society group other cultural backgrounds are limited and forgotten. This leads to biased teachings and special attention towards the dominating race. On the other hand, it also influences the teachers and the government to fund and pay more attention to one race schools rather than mixed ethnic schools that are located in poor and simple communities. As Kozol interviewed a young fifteen year old girl that said, “It’s more as being hidden, it’s like being put in garbage place where they aren’t sure what to do with you, but …show more content…

Leading a certain race to take over the privileges of others, in this case it would be the white privilege because, like Peggy McIntosh said, “My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor, as an unfairly advantaged person, or as a participant in a damaged culture” (McIntosh, 352). She didn’t have to see herself as a person with difficulties in her education or in danger because of her skin color. Allowing white privilege to believe like Peggy McIntosh also mentioned, “My skin color was an asset for any move I was educated to want to make. I could think of myself as belonging in major ways and making social systems work for me” (McIntosh, 355). This is a great example of what I mean with a certain race taking over other races privileges, they don’t see themselves as having a limit or having equal privileges like the other races they believe they have total domination. They instead saw themselves as people who can use their skin color as advantage to use with other students of different ethnic backgrounds, because as society has put it they are the leading race because of his/her history. The quote also identifies how having a leading race throughout the years can cause a separation from other ethnicities. This then leads to an unfair advantage in how all students receive education and other educational services. This causes to be unfair and biased

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