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Segregation began in the late 19th century after Jim Crow laws were enforced in the Southern United States. Regarding educationally being segregated, a major turning point in the matter was the trial of Brown vs. the Board of Education, declaring that separating the races was unconstitutional. Some may believe that this issue was brought about solely because segregation is just unfair to the race that was considered lower class. However, is there actually an educational benefit from integrating schools rather than keeping them segregated? No matter where you go, there will always be good schools and bad schools. The bad schools were usually those in poverty, while the good schools were mostly white. For some reason, these “bad” schools were

However, they must stop thinking about places that were only highlighted because of the violence. White people did not want to deal with the violence, so they left, creating their own form of segregation without even realizing it. There are other examples like where Nikole grew up in Waterloo, Iowa. She and her sister were part of a desegregation program. Nikole believes that thanks to being integrated, she is the woman she is today. An intelligent black woman who works for the New York Times. Black students’ lives, even though it may have been ordered by court, were changed by integration. They had more of a chance to make money and stay out of poverty. They were less likely to have health problems because they could afford medical attention which helped them live longer. The absolute opposite was true for black students who remained in segregated schools filled with those in

The article is entitled “Failure Factories” written by Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gartner, and Michael LaForgia. These writers focus on the Pinellas County School Board members who turned five schools in black neighborhoods into a few on the worst in Florida. They ditched the idea of integration, (as seen in Figure 1) which as mentioned before, left these schools overwhelmingly in poverty. An outrageous number of black students were failing, they were not provided more money and resources, and their families were even more stressed out. Since their school board did nothing, everyone is paying the price. “Ninety-five percent of black students tested at the schools are failing reading or math, making the black neighborhoods in southern Pinellas County the most concentrated site of academic failure in all of Florida” (Fitzpatrick, Gartner, LaForgia). More than half of the teachers asked for a transfer out in 2014. Some walked off the job without giving a notice. Pinellas was in the same group as the poorest, most rural counties in the state of Florida. Goliath Davis, former police chief, told Tampa Bay Times that when one student fails, the criminal justice system wins. He questioned those who vote for re-segregation by asking, “You’d rather pay to keep them incarcerated than try to straighten out the system?” West Jacksonville Elementary, known as ‘Lil’ Baghdad’, has black students passing reading at twice