Reflection
This article resonated with me as I have gone through a segregated school system. For high school I went to Charles E. Shea High School a very racially segregated school most students were of color with the predominant ethnicity being Cape Verden. Compared to other schools in Pawtucket we were incredibly segregated. The fact was that although segregation is illegal it is not enforced. Not only was my high school composed of mostly Black and Brown students, but it was also underfunded this school was falling apart. There were classes with holes in the wall textbooks ripping at the seams and ac and heating lacking. This affected the education of me and my peers when schools next to you have intact buildings and new school supplies, it makes you feel inferior. Many schools are funded on property tax which due to a long history of redlining leads many school districts with large populations of people of color to have underfunded schools. Redlining is a racist system where banks would refuse loans to families of color who lived in areas considered poor or “ghetto” leading these families to be forced to remain in impoverished areas. This law is still affecting our educational institutions now.
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