Modern Day school segregation
I am currently in school for special education. As I do my observations, I have noticed that the kids in my classes do not seem to care about race or ethnicity and converse with each other. I am not saying that they are suppose to care because, ultimately, race or ethnicity should not matter when making friends or learning. As I think back to a discussion that occurred in one of my classes, There was a guy a few years older than me who graduated from the same high school as me. We began to talk about segregation in our school, he said that he remembered our school being extremely segregated. Then I recalled that there was quite a bit of intermixing. So I will get to my point and my question.
My point is that segregation in our school seems to be slowly disappearing. In our school, what segregation I remembered was not because we did not like each, but merely because we just had no connection to one another. I was wondering if segregation is dying down in American schools and more importantly the classroom?
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Things are SLOWLY Getting Better
In my opinion, I think that segregation has most definitely cam a long way, but of course we still have a long way to go. While observing in the classroom I haven't seen much segregating going on, but I still believe that it isn't gone 100%. Society has to learn to look at each and every person the same before we can even start thinking about segregation being totally erased. I must say that I will be good and happy when this subject can be erased and everyone can just be equal like it should be and no person should be looked down upon.
I am also studying to be a
I am also studying to be a Special Education teacher. I think that through inclusion, we are helping the problem. I never had to deal with segregation in High School. We came from a small town, where the vast majority of the school was white. Even doing my observations in classrooms here in Pitt County, I haven't really seen much of it. There seems to be a pretty good blend of races, and I haven't observed any problems.
On the right path
I don't think we are there yet, but I agree that cultures and peoples mix and cooperate today like never before and I truly hope it progresses. I believe that inclusion in the classroom is an excellent way to, at an early age, introduce students to people from all walks of life.
segregation
it is a sad reality that we still face issues like segregation in our schools systems. It is important, however, to remember just how far we have come in half a century. We still have a long way to go but at least we are on the right track.
I wish I could say it was
In my home town of Chapel Hill, NC, the town thinks themselves extremely liberal and forward thinking. However, their schools are still segregated. And not by laws or rules or implementation by the teachers but honestly by the students. In the high schools there are so many different groups of people from so many different backgrounds that there is no intermixing of different races or ethnicities. Students are all from either very weathly backgrounds or very poor backgrounds and generaly both groups stay away from each other. So as much as I would like to say that yes segragation is gone, I can only say that it is gone by law but not by students mentality.
Self-Segregation
I could not agree with you more. Since the 1990's the US has become more diverse, but the schools are becoming more segregated. Goths, preps, blacks, whites, gay and lesbian, middle class- there are so many groups in schools and because of this students tend to segregate themselves under whatever category they felt they belong to. This self- segregation is not something that teachers can change. It has to start with the students. They have to willing integrate into a different group. Maybe if schools had more diversity programs that would would encourage integration or if teachers could even talk about the issue.
I wish I could say it was
In my home town of Chapel Hill, NC, the town thinks themselves extremely liberal and forward thinking. However, their schools are still segregated. And not by laws or rules or implementation by the teachers but honestly by the students. In the high schools there are so many different groups of people from so many different backgrounds that there is no intermixing of different races or ethnicities. Students are all from either very weathly backgrounds or very poor backgrounds and generaly both groups stay away from each other. So as much as I would like to say that yes segragation is gone, I can only say that it is gone by law but not by students mentality.
I think that the comment
I think that the comment you made was true. People tend to hang around others that have similar interest as themselves. I dont think that it is neccessarily race related. I do believe that segregation in the school system is dying down . In a class that I observed, all ethnicities mingled with eachother holding no bias.
I think so
From my observations in the classroom schools are doing a much better job at not being segregated. In the classroom that I observed all the students interacted well with each-other, even the special education students that came in for recess. I was very happy to see the students in the general education classroom interacting very easily with the special education students. I hope that I can create that same environment in my classroom. From what I can remember from elementary school the class was usually made up of white and African Americans students, now however the classrooms are more diverse then before and I only see it getting better.
I think so too
I belive that segregation in the school system is dying down. The classrooms are pretty balanced and I like that. I too hope to create an environmet where my students learn from eachother. I believe if race doesn't matter to me then it won't matter to my students in our classroom all will be welcomed