Hi Soror,
I read the case while I was in lawschool. You are right that I have mixed up the facts as to where the child was going to a segregated school.
Shinerbock asked about solutions. I think that one solution might be to divide up all of the educational resources for a state and give a certain dollar amount per child. Give the same dollar amount for each child.
That way, kids are not receiving inferior books, facilities, etc. according to how much money their parents pay in taxes in a particular neighborhood. It's fair to the kids. The only problem is that that's not really fair to the parents the have to pay the taxes.
It seems to me that such a system would, however, incentivize the rich to either get all kids more $$ per kid or communities may become more economically diverse because there would be less incentive to move to a very expensive neighborhood when your kid will not have resources that are any better than the inner city kid's neighborhood.
The rich people who don't like it can then just pull their kids out and place them in private school if they want ... but the inner city kids will STILL get a decent amount of $$ per kid, right?
Teachers and people familiar with school finance, would that solution work?
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Originally Posted by Jody
Summerchild
Brown vs. Board of Education signaled the end of forced segregation. The lawsuit was originally brought because Brown couldn't go to the school in her neighborhood because she was black. She was forced to go a school outisde her neighborhood based solely on the color of her skin.
Part of the problem was that since all black children were forced to go to the same school, irrespective of where they lived, the school had less than steller resources. Forced busing was a means to ensure that school resources were equally distributed.
I would encourage everyone to really understand all the underlying issues in this case, namely, a black girl, couldn't go to the school closest to her (like next door) BECAUSE she was black.
Legal scholars, how can people look up the original case? I so often see discussions on this Board spiral out of control because sometimes people based their opinions on flawed information. Granted, they could have the same comments irrespective of the factual data, but still, they should at least be clear about the basic facts underscoring the issue.
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