School segregation was an issue after the civil war, they concluded that “separate but equal has no place” in schools, now a days is school segregation natural.
The 1950’s was a time where there was a lot of racial segregation. Especially in the school systems, where there was an all black school and an all white school. This was a bad thing because the way the school system was, the white school got a better education then the blacks. Of course, over the years we have strayed away from this way of living, or have?
In late 1949, a group of parents called the “Consolidated Parents Anacostia Group” from Washington, DC made a suggestion to the “Board of Education of the District of Columbia” for a new junior high school called John Phillip Sousa Junior High as an integrated school. The school rejected there request and the school was released as a white school only. In 1950, they tried to admit 11 African American boys into the school, but again were denied. This time they took the case to court. They called the case Bolling vs. Sharpe, it ruled out that racial segregation in the District of Colombian schools was not legal under the Constitution.
“School segregation is unconstitutional”
I think we can all agree to the statement above that school segregation is unconstitutional it states in the Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”. Blacks did not have there civil rights yet so that could be one reason why, but to learn more about civil you should go to Amanda Alipio's blog. So why is it that the declaration of Independence was written in 1775 and they wrote that all men are created equal, that the school system did’t see that segregating races in schools was not letting all men be created equally. In a excerpt by Earl Warren he writes “ the plaintiffs contended that segregated public schools are not equal and cannot be made equal, and that hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws.”
Why is Segregating school bad?
So why is segregating schools a bad thing? It was a bad thing because it deprived the blacks of getting a good education they did not get the same learning experience as the white children. The black kids had to work in a shack that had the capacity of only 120. The building held first, fourth and fifth grades. The second and third graders used a building close by. This building had capacity of 40. The building usually had no indoor plumbing, no windows, no steam, water, or heat. Of course, the white schools had these things. 
Is school segregation natural now?
As I said in a previous blog schools are starting to becoming naturally segregated, why is that? Static’s show that in 1991, 39% of black students in Southern states attended schools that were majority white; in 2003, only 29% did. In Kentucky, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri, and Oklahoma, 69% of black students attended majority non-white schools in 2003, in 1991 only 59% did. I think the reason for this is that races seem to be comfortable with their own race.
Can we stop this from continuing?
Yes I personally think we can, High Tech high is a good example our school has a good mixture of just about every race. If other schools start to follow the same thing than the schools will not be just predominately, one race if we do not then the statistics will get lower and lower as Barack Obama would say “yes we can
where i got my info from
"Amanda." Amanda. 3 Oct. 2008 http://avalipio.blogspot.com/.
"Bolling v. Sharpe - Further Readings." Law Library - American Law and Legal Information. 3 Oct. 2008 http://law.jrank.org/pages/13354/Bolling-v-Sharpe.html.
"Jasmine's Humanities blogs." Jasmine's Humanities blogs. 3 Oct. 2008 http://jbellhightechmedia.blogspot.com/.
Images of Schools, 1961-1963 - Separate but Not Equal: Race, Education, and Prince Edward County, Virginia." VCU Libraries. 3 Oct. 2008 http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/pec02.html.
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