School Integration has long since been a very hot topic of debate since the Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954. The Jefferson County School District was trying to integrate a new plan that will make schools in the country more diverse with having an enrollment based on race that was 15% to 50% African-American, but the Supreme Court shot that down. Now they're trying a new plan that will assign students to schools throughout the district based on household income while still trying to integrate and some of those students are assigned to schools that are an hour or more from their home and in most cases in a worse neighborhood. They claim that this will help students when they become adults by experiencing diversity but at what cost? I believe that students should be able to choose what school they want to attend and not be forced to attend a school that is in a dangerous neighborhood and has lower test scores when they have a perfectly good school closer to home. The Brown vs. Board of Education overturned schools being able to tell students where they could and could not go to school based on race, but is that not what is happening here just a reversed situation? As a parent I would not want a school district telling me where my child had to go to school based on integration when my child will suffer because of it.
-Shae N
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