To introduce ourselves, we are current students of Towson University located in Baltimore, Maryland. In our School and American Society course, we were prompted to research and inform the public of a topic of interest in relation to Baltimore City.
We are currently and will forever be in the process of this research. We wanted to choose an outlet that we not only can update for the rest of our careers, but can prove to the world a progressive issue in our hands.
The topic we are concentrating on is segregation in the neighborhoods and the classrooms of Baltimore City. We will be looking to compare neighboring counties such as: Howard, Carroll, Montgomery, Frederick and Baltimore County.
For those of you who may not be in the education field, or in the state of Maryland, and have found yourself at this very blog - Please read on anyway! The topic we've chosen to discuss is everywhere!
Thank you for your time!
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Chelsea, Danielle, and Karen
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I dont think there is really segragation going on in schools. Schools dont deny students, they simply teach the students who live in their school district.
ReplyDeleteThere is a "self-imposed" segregation just because of the make-up of the community where the students live. The government does not cause the segregation, the community does. Typically, city has higher black ratios and suburbs have higher white ratios, so the choice of where you live contributes to the segregation.
ReplyDeleteEnvironment obviously has much to do with the problems that Baltimore City Schools have and probably will continue to have as far as lower reading and math skills are concerned. It not only takes extremely dedicated administrators and teachers, but also the total cooperation, support and enthusiasm of our students' parents. This is a huge task for everyone concerned. I also feel that the high numbers of single parents and the need for that parent to support their children in the education process hinders the parent in having not only the time to work with the school system but also the financial support needed to improve the quality of education. I truly feel this is not a segration problem but rather an enviornmental and economic one.
ReplyDeleteWe are talking here about correcting a problem, segregation, which existed long before most people living in this country were even born. Segregation didn't happen overnight and as we can see, correcting problems caused by it are not easily achieved in many situations where there are and continue to be very heavy concentrations of minorities. Baltimore city and its schools are not segregated and redistricting its schools will not be the answer to the current problems there. The problems now in Baltimore are how to correct the social shortcomings brought on the segregation of the pre 1954 Brown v Bd. of Ed. years and the post 1954 years of mismanagement. Now the problems are ever increased as a result of the shrinking world and the global economic problems putting added stress on Baltimore's problems. Problems the city and its schools have in part are funding, crime, student pregnance rate, gangs, single-parent homes, poor parenting skills, parents not cooperating and supporting schools, incompetence among staff and administration, truancy and the list goes on.
ReplyDeleteYou can not force people to move to the city to improve the racial composition of the schools. Now, compounded by the international econimic fiasco, lack of needed funding will probably cause bigger problems in the city, especially when they have elected city officials not willing to defer their salary increases to critical needs within the city and a mayor who had to have her arm twisted along with the fear of not being reelected if she continued refusing. Baltimore schools need much more in the area of planning and implementing than the officials in charge are capable of providing. Thus the problems in the city cannot be blamed on segregation but the inadequacy of planning for the desegration of the schools over the last 54 years.