Still Seperate, Still Unequal

Morgan Evans
English 1100
October 29, 2015
Prof. Young

 

Quotes Part 2 :)

 

"Is the answer really to throw money into these dysfunctional and failing schools... Don't we have some better ways to make them `work'?" The question is posed in a variety of forms. 'Yes, of course, it's not a perfectly fair system as it stands. But money alone is surely not the sole response."


"If you do what I tell you to do, how I tell you to do it, when I tell you to do it, you'll get it right," said a determined South Bronx principal observed by a reporter for the New York Times. She was laying out a memorizing rule for math to an assembly of her students. "If you don't, you'll get it wrong."


"The teacher's response to this distraction was immediate: his arm shot out and up in a diagonal in front of him, his hand straight up, his fingers flat. The young co-teacher did this, too. When they saw their teachers do this, all the children in the classroom did it, too."

Still Seperate, Still Unequal

Morgan Evans
English 1100
October 26, 2015
Prof. Young

 

Quotes :) 

 

      "Even from the start, however, parents in the neighborhood showed great reluctance to permit their children to enroll at Martin Luther King, and, despite "its prime location and its name, which itself creates the highest of expectations," notes the Times, the school before long came to be a destination for black and Hispanic students who could not obtain admission into more successful schools."

 

 

      "But when I looked at the racial numbers that the district had reported to the state, I learned that there were 2,800 black and Hispanic children in the system, 1 Asian child, and 3 whites. Words, in these cases, cease to have real meaning; or, rather, they mean the opposite of what they say."

 

 

      "It's as if you have been put in a garage where, if they don't have room for something but aren't sure if they should throw it out, they put it there where they don't need to think of it again."