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Ricky Woodie
Ethics
Media portfolio
4 October 4, 2007

Integrated
Schools

This article is about how In Kentucky and Seattle, the Supreme
Court ruled that integration plans in these school districts
violated constitutional laws. The plans were to keep schools
from segregating along the same lines as neighborhoods. Parents
sued after their children were denied admission to the schools
they preferred because of their race. This started because
people wanted to give children equal opportunity rights as
other children. One side, mostly the black community argues
that they are in poorer neighborhoods, and are not getting the
same education opportunities as the white kids in the better
schools. The other side says that they moved to the
neighborhoods they are in to send their children to the better
schools. This relates to what we talked in class, when we read
about Johnson chapter 3, when he talks about race and economies
issues.
The argument here is that it is a race issue that the courts
are not allowing these districts to de-segregate the schools.
We learned in class that racism shaped the economy that we live
in today and that is why neighborhoods are segregated. The
article is saying that it is a race issue saying kids can’t get
equal education opportunities unless they pass this ruling.
In my opinion I do not believe this law should be passed. It’s
a race issue if they do allow this to pass. For example some
one in the article said they could not send their kid to a
school because of their race. That is because they wanted an
equal amount of black and white children. Also it is not fair
to parents in the better school districts to have to pay higher
taxes for those schools when their children might have to go to
a school in a different school or have other children in other
neighborhoods that pay less, to get to go to their school. I
agree that all people deserve the same education and races
should not be segregated, but I think there should be a
different way to do this. I think that if this passed that
families would end up moving to other neighborhoods where this
law was not in affect and they would be right back to square
one. This is a issue that must be addressed so races are not
oppressed