Virginia shut down its public schools for a time after the decision in “Brown v. Board of Education,” and a movement began among Black students to reopen and integrate the public schools. The school segregation issue is one of the many negative outgrowths of residential segregation. Public schools in some Southern states like Alabama and…
Virginia shut down its public schools for a time after the decision in “Brown v. Board of Education,” and a movement began among Black students to reopen and integrate the public schools. The school segregation issue is one of the many negative outgrowths of residential segregation. Public schools in some Southern states like Alabama and Mississippi have largely been left to become schools primarily for Black students, while white parents who can afford it send their kids to private academies. Pat Conroy covered the topic in his novel “The Prince of Tides,” and I think President Biden has realized that his earlier positions on the topic were untenable.
This is correct, and my intention isn’t to imply segregation was a problem in the south only. I addressed the southern states school issues as this is where the whole concept of massive resistance started. The north had some significant educational desegregation cases, including the South Boston cases, as well as Milliken v. Bradley in Michigan, which put a limit on how far courts were willing to go to desegregate.
I understand that segregation was a movement in the south, but in Chicago it was a movement too. Call it parochial education. In terms of desegregation actions like in Boston, the courts decided a while ago that Deseg is over, and statistically we are now no better off than we were before desegregation. So, my mom has a point about the USA. Not integrating people into a community in all of its institutions is a problem, and not what makes America great! https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1111060299/school-segregation-report
Virginia shut down its public schools for a time after the decision in “Brown v. Board of Education,” and a movement began among Black students to reopen and integrate the public schools. The school segregation issue is one of the many negative outgrowths of residential segregation. Public schools in some Southern states like Alabama and Mississippi have largely been left to become schools primarily for Black students, while white parents who can afford it send their kids to private academies. Pat Conroy covered the topic in his novel “The Prince of Tides,” and I think President Biden has realized that his earlier positions on the topic were untenable.
The irony is that the integrated schools in Fairfax County are the best in the state of Virginia.
Chicago does not look any better than a city in a southern state when it comes to housing and school integration.
This is correct, and my intention isn’t to imply segregation was a problem in the south only. I addressed the southern states school issues as this is where the whole concept of massive resistance started. The north had some significant educational desegregation cases, including the South Boston cases, as well as Milliken v. Bradley in Michigan, which put a limit on how far courts were willing to go to desegregate.
I understand that segregation was a movement in the south, but in Chicago it was a movement too. Call it parochial education. In terms of desegregation actions like in Boston, the courts decided a while ago that Deseg is over, and statistically we are now no better off than we were before desegregation. So, my mom has a point about the USA. Not integrating people into a community in all of its institutions is a problem, and not what makes America great! https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1111060299/school-segregation-report