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SEGREGATED SCHOOLS TODAY

Position of segregated schools in recent time or today is much better than previous years. But it is not completely wipe off from the society. There is still segregated school in society. Forty years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools are still actively engaging in segregation and unequal treatment, according to a recent Webster University speaker. Peter Irons, a professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, is the author of "Jim's Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision," which looks at the monumental decision from a legal point of view. He spoke to a crowd of about 40 Webster students Sept. 22, elaborating on the core argument of his book - that schools are still actively engaging in segregation and unequal treatment. "The system is designed to create a pool of cheap labor," Irons said.

When Irons began investigating the aftermath of the Brown decision, he realized that one of the segregation cases that preceded the case was from his hometown. He cites his ignorance of the case as an example of how disconnected white people were to the plight of Blacks who lived just a few blocks away. He believes that the situation has not improved. More than 90 percent of students at inner city schools are black, and there is an imbalance of resources. Children learn at an early age that they will not succeed, and that is a stigma they cannot get rid of. He explained that the segregated school system is a natural consequence of capitalist society, which demands a division of labor. Minority children are taught that they cannot succeed, a stigma from which they can never recover, he said.

Irons are a controversial speaker on the subject for another reason. He describes himself as a "somewhat elderly white male lawyer" who has lived in a mostly white society all of his life. He said he grew up not knowing any blacks, even though there was a community of poor black families living in his town. His adopted daughter, who is black, is the only minority child in her school. "There are disincentives from bringing the best teachers into inner city schools," Irons said. He proposed a plan to redistribute resources and use taxpayer money to rebuild minority communities. He did not mention busing, in which schools would be integrated by bringing city residents to county schools and vice versa. Basically, According to Mr. Iron , first change to human narrow thinking, and educate them as everyone is equal in eye of God. You cannot change whole world in one day. It is continuous process which should be increased day by day.