Desegregating Schools

    After the Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954 segregation in schools was suppose to be unconstitutional and nationally not allowed, but i would have to say it has not. Due to the fact I have seen segregation in schools based on economical status first hand. As i kid i moved a lot, lived in different types of income and always saw this difference. When i went to Vandegrift high school where most people are considered high class and a few middle-class families.It seemed to me as if the regular classes were almost as hard as my AP classes I would have to study everyday after school in order to maintain an A,B average. My senior year of school i moved and transferred to Anderson High this was a culture shock to me because it was, to me, a medium and low class school. The students were also held to much lower standards based on the fact they assumed students couldn't achieve most things if held to higher standards. I didn't study much at all and had all A's. Differences like this disappoint me because Anderson is suppose to be one of the better  public schools in AISD and there were so many profound differences.
    In Valerie Strauss article  How, after 60 years, Brown v. Board of Education succeeded — and didn’t. she says "Schools for black children had enormous resource shortages in 1954. Inequalities still exist in some places, although they are much smaller. But resource equality itself is insufficient; disadvantaged students require much greater resources than middle-class white students to prepare for success in school." This is true our schools recorcess seem more and more to be given to the schools that have higher income families. Unfortunately it is the lower income families that need them the most. Many of the poor income students don't have the same education going into kindergarten because they couldn't affored a pre-k or there guardians don't give them the same type of learning before they enter schools as the higher income families give to their children; so when starting school they also have to start playing catch-up. There is also an issue with the quality of teachers in lower-income schools vs higher-income schools. Teachers are held to a lower standard because they are given lower standards when it comes to requirements their students have to reach. This is only making the problem worse they should have great quality teachers like the schools with more money because the kids that need to be helped the most are the ones that are behind. 
    To fix this i believe we should put a national system into place where all schools rich or poor get the same quality of learning, the same funding, and the same resources and we should have residential integration be more widely enforced so that not only white rich kids can go to a certain school but so that everyone from every class share the same school and education. If we start there we will help the future of our society by bringing the kids up not holding them back.

Blog Stage 6:Commentary

In my classmates blog United States Government News Carolina Vazquez discusses the topic of poverty in the united states. In this blog she states that those whom are in poverty have significant set backs in civil rights compared to "rich" people. She specifically talks about issues with the court system stating "Focusing on poverty and criminal justice, it is clear that the poor are the ones who suffer the most because they cannot afford to pay high court fees and other charges such as getting an expensive lawyer to defend them in a fair trial." When talking about these problems she uses several techniques that make this a well written article such as cause and effect as well as quoting the work she is writing the blog about. Due to this she has persuaded me to agree with her discussion. I think that poor people do not have the same fairness when it comes to trials as rich people do based on not having the same type of lawyers provided to them. I also agree that those born in poverty have a harder time becoming economically stable due to the lack of resources provided to them.

    In conclusion due to the authors credibility i would have to agree with her standpoint when it comes to poverty and the lack of rights the people in poverty face. I would also say this is a well written article due to the techniques used such as diction, cause and effect, and the amount of proof given.