Are schools in America still being segregated?

Answer 1

There is no legal segregation, but there is a lot of de facto segregation. The system of education we have in the US leads us to have schools that serve the neighborhood or town they are in. Wealthy towns, districts, and neighborhoods have a good tax base and serve their students well. Poorer towns, districts, and neighborhoods don't have the funding, and accordingly their students are not served as well. What happens is a lot of people of wealth move to areas where their kids will be well served educationally, and poorer people remain in areas where their educational needs are not well served. Unfortunately, in America, race seems to be one of the motivators of who moves and lives where. So we tend to have segregation, but not legally. It should be pointed out that some schools are engaged in voluntary programs to bus in a few dozen students from urban districts to promote diversity, so that helps desegregate a little, although of course we don't see students from suburban schools sent to urban inner-city schools....

Answer 2

yes..and no. They do not officially segregate, but the reality is there is a certain amount of segregation that goes on based on the area a person lives. Intercity schools often have a higher level of non-white students, and may be poorly funded. Suburban and rural areas higher white children better funding. Unfair system we have for education in this country.

Answer 3

No, schools are not still being segregated by race. Although, an interesting fact I have learned is that schools in the South do not refer to the Civil War as "the Civil War". They call it something more like "the War for Southern Freedom" or something such.

Answer 4

By the schools? No. Children themselves often group up with friends with similar upbringings and culture, they're often with their own race.

Answer 5

Only by the students themselves. In the 80's they were called cliques. (sp?)

Answer 6

Obviously some still are.

Answer 7

No.