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ORIGINAL
QUESTION

In Retrospect: Brown v. Board of Education (Topic 1)

The Supreme Court Case, Brown v. Board of the
Education (1954), ended the segregated schooling of black and white
students.

Decades following Brown v. Board of Education, many
America’s public schools remain segregated. Using specific information from
your local school district, (zoning, census data, etc) support or refute this
statement.

*If your local school district’s website does not
provide substantive, statistical data, you may pick another school district
within your state.

STUDENT
#1 RESPONSE

The Judiciary, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights

Hello’ Prof and Classmates

My district is Columbus public schools, even after Brown
v. Board of education passed in 1953 my district was still racially segregated
until 1979 when a lawsuit was filed against it for racially profiling the
students by sending white children to predominantly white school districts and
black children to predominantly black school districts, well after the passage
of Brown v. Board of education this type of misconduct was not legal anymore
but it still took my district twenty-six years and a lawsuit to start allowing
children to go to any school of their parents’ choice which they should have
been rightfully allowed to do by law after so many men and women stood up in
1953 and fought so their children would have the right to get a proper
education in the school district that they see fit, we all want to see our
children succeed. In 2010 Demographics showed “The poverty rate for Columbus
was 21.8% in 2010 compared to an 14.8% rate for the rest of the state.”
(Columbus City Schools, 2010).

Racial Demographics in 2012 Showed White being at
61.5% and Black or African American being at 28% of the overall population for
the district of Columbus.

STUDENT
#2 RESPONSE

Board Part 1

Professor and classmates,

Good morning sum 60 to 61 years later after the Brown
v Board of Education ended segregation “The New York city school district is
still suffering from the worst racial segregation of any U.S. state, city
classes get poor marks for diversity: City charter schools showed huge
segregation rates, with a paper from the Civil Rights Project revealing that
there is less than 1% white enrollment at 73% of charters.”

“Segregation is alive and well in New York City,” said
Mona Davids, president of the New York City Parents Union. “Every child does
not have access to an equal education. It’s scary.”

“Across the state, half of public school students are
white, but the average black student went to a school where only 17.7% of kids
are white, the report found. “New York State has consistently been one of the
most segregated states in the nation — no Southern state comes close to New
York,” Orfield said.

In the city, 19 of 32 school districts had 10% or less
white students, including all Bronx districts and two-thirds of the districts
in Brooklyn.

District 31 in Staten Island had the highest
proportion of white students, at 53%. Citywide, the school system is about 85%
nonwhite. Magnet schools had the highest rates of diversity across the city.”

(Chapman, Ben, 2014)  New York Daily News