Educational Segregation

Educational segregation separates students from their race and financial situation than their performance. The world needs people from different backgrounds and points of views to get a good learning experience. So why would a school segregate lower, middle, and upper class from each other? The performance of a child does not depend on their race or financial situation. In the novel, Salvage Inequalities, by Jonathan Kozol, talks about an elementary school in Riverdale that is so strict on segregation that the school is practically two schools. Kozol states that, “one of [the school has] about 130 children, most of whom are poor, Hispanic, black, assigned to one of the 12 special class; the other [school] of some 700 mainstream students, almost all of whom are white or Asian” (113). This shows other people a racial and class discrimination. Children’s families who are in a lower class don’t deserve to be set apart from other students who are wealthier. Children would not even notice the difference if they are put together. Children just want to learn and play. They don’t care about how poor the other student is or what kind of skin color they are. They may have questions about a different colored student, but teachers should be able to conquer that question with no problem. Students should not have educational segregation because of their race and financial situation.