Public Schooling

[Lyricmaniac]

Should there be public schools open to only one race or only one gender? If you are currently in school, what would the ramifications be if you were only in school with your race OR with your own gender? Would learning be improved? Would it take away a certain depth? What are your thoughts?

[Atnas]

um No. There are like two black kids in my school but there is no difference between me and them, and no line should be drawn to distinguish race.

[Kojo]

What inspired this gem of an idea?!

Woman's suffrage guarantees them a place in public schools, and I'm pretty sure this isn't the sixties. Basically this is a bad idea. An impossible idea. A ridiculous idea. NO NO NO.

[Shade]

we have one of those in Toronto for black people, dont see the point tbh if anything i think it would cause more trouble than less

[Autumn]

The society isn't split up and school's preparing children to live in the society. Therefore I think it's a ridiculous idea.

I don't think learning would be improved by much, I mean, people will always find fascinations they deem more interesting. With or without the other gender. Likewise bullying wouldn't decrease, bullies'd pick on people for something else than skin colour.

[Barbatos]

we have one of those in Toronto for black people, dont see the point tbh if anything i think it would cause more trouble than less

ha ha wow and i thought canada was more advanced than the US in terms of race relations and stuff

this stuff was all right back in the 1960s and prior when races were still bickering over equal rights and stuff, but it shouldn't be acceptable today

[Lene]

As far as I know there aren't any public schools that are segregated by race, although with the White Flight phenomenon they might as well make it official. I have heard that some states have pass laws allowing gender-only public schools though. From experience w/ private schools I don't see any adverse consequences to kids who go that route, but I am supsicious of any sort of legal seperation because it is one foot backwards to the sixties.

There are schools that teach a curriculum from a non white/christian perspective, which I think is what Shade is referring to in Canada. You know the history classes where you learn how wonderful Manifest Destiny was for America but you get little to nothing about how that affected Native Americans (or the Canadian equivalent).

I think that instead of isolating it, more work should be done to bring multi-cultural perspectives to public schools. I think the idea that kids have to wait until October to learn about Hispanics, or science must kowtow to Christian ideology, or that you can't get the other side until you go to university ridiculous. America would be a better place if we weren't innoculated with delusions of grandeur and purity. As a first generation American, I know that America is a land of opportunity but that doesn't mean it was built on puppies and rainbows.

I think until No Child Left Behind is revamped/abolished, things will be hard to change. If it's not on the test, most schools don't bother teaching it, and the few teachers that do try to give inclusive, quality education get in trouble w/ the administration.

[HawkZombie]

There are all girls and all boys PRIVATE institutions. As for public, I wouldn't mind gender seperation, but I wouldn't send my kid to it, or let him attend, etc.

As for race...the 1960s are over.