Brown vs. Board of Education + Savage Inequalities

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas is what reversed Plessy vs. Ferguson. The law was that the white and black people could be separate, as long as they had something of their own that would be equal to what the other had. For example, bathrooms, schools, restaurants, etc. In Brown vs. Board of Education, the separate but equal law was found to be inherently unequal. Brown sued the Board of Education because they wouldn't let his daughter go to the white schools, even though they were a lot closer to home than the black schools were. The education for the white people was very private and taught by private groups, where as the education for black people was almost nonexistent, and in some states, even forbidden. Separating young kids because of their race gives them a feeling of inferiority in society and will most likely affect their hearts and minds. Today, education is a right that is made available to everyone on equal terms (or should be anyways)

In the text Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, the author argues that American schools are even more segregated now than they were back in 1954. The author describes his experiences as a teacher, when he visited countless different schools in different cities/places in America. There were never specific ones, he just went wherever he knew people. Most of his experiences in these schools were bad ones. The kids were not getting proper education, if you could call what they were getting education at all. There were not enough teachers for the amount of kids, barely any learning materials, and not even enough room in a classroom for all the students. I couldn't believe what I was reading throughout this whole text. It amazes me that these poor children have to go through all that pain and uncomfortableness in order to learn what it is they learn. So many kids drop out because they have no motivation and it doesn't matter to them at all whether they are getting an education or not. I found this article to be very sad and I really wish there was something that could be done to improve these school systems and help these poor kids get the education they deserve.