Education after Desegregation

OK, love Huffington Post because it give us a not traditional view what is going on in the world. Christopher Bonastia’s article caught my eye this morning titled “How Different Do Schools Look Today 50 Years After Prince Edward County, Virginia? I think back on my days of going to school in the public system of New York City and yes the schools may have been desegregated but I lived in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY so when I sat in class everyone looked like my self I do not call that desegregation.

School may have been desegregated but poverty and low incomes also placed you in a position of living in areas that did not allow you to go to school with whites. The first time I sat in a class with a person who was white besides a teacher was in my first College class at Baurch in New York City. Moving to the South has done something that I did not have when I grew up it has given my girls the opportunity to attend school with all types of children. They have what I did not have friends of all kind of backgrounds, culture and color besides Latino. I appreciate this because the really world is more then Black and White.

Reference

Bonastia, Christopher. (January 11, 2012).How Different Do Schools Look Today 50 Years After Prince Edward County, Virginia? Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-bonastia/school-segregation_b_1195336.html?ref=segregation