On the Failed Racial Integration of Public Schools
Statistics recorded from "What Happened to Brown?", a review by Kathleen Sullivan in the New York Review of Books:
- White students make up two thirds of the American school-age population, but on average they attend schools that are 80 percent white.
- Fewer than 10 percent of black students attend schools whose students are mostly white.
- Only 10 percent of white students attend schools in which minority students predominate.
- The students in some school systems, like the Mott Haven elementary schools in the Bronx, are over 99 percent black or from other minorities.
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This is going to become a hot button issue in Boston as they look into the re-districting of the city. Many feel that the proposed new districts will promote a return to school segregation, however, many parents who currently have the selection option self-select to put their children in schools with other children who match their racial profile. It becomes a question of, how much integration should we force, if it's not what others would select? This isn't really an answer, rather an area to watch as this issue develops. Like the thoughts you provoke though!