it seems pretty axiomatic to write but i've been thinking a lot about education and educators lately and how important a good education is. by funding schools based on property tax, the united states essentially stratifies public education: the inner city schools do poorly and continue doing poorly, while the affluent suburban schools continue to thrive. kids that attend the latter institutions go onto colleges and subsequently move into the areas where their children will be best educated -- in short, in the suburbs. charter schools are emerging (with some success) in new orleans, but i feel almost as if that system completely denies the structural problems that american education faces. problems that are, largely, economic in nature.
brown v. ed has, in some areas, reversed itself, with schools being largely 98% or more non-white. equality? no. separation? yes. separate curricula? yes. that ain't right.
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