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Interesting, thanks. Not sure why the writer included the Lau vs. Nichols case, which had little or nothing to do with segregation/integration. It concerned the lack of special programs to help non- or limited English speaking students learn English.
I grew up in So Cal and the schools weren't segregated.
One note: My grandparents were school teachers in rural Ohio starting right after WWI and insisted all their classrooms be open to any child who wanted an education. They refused to segregate the small school house they taught from. Apparently this didn't sit well with a lot of people but they basically told the bigots they could stick it where the sun don't shine. I can take no credit but, dang, I'm proud they stood up for the rights of ALL people to get an education. Because of them several high schools were desegregated in the 1930's. My grandfather later taught reading to Black U.S. Army soldiers in the South when it was illegal. He told Uncle Sam to stick it as well.
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the schools I went to weren't segregated either....though I do remember when (in grade 8) the girls were finally allowed to wear pants (instead of skirts or dresses)to school for the first time....also the "strap" was abolished.
Hello. I am a 56 year old caucasian who went to school in metro Atlanta. I want to preface my contribution by stating that I do not have a predjudiced bone in my body. I love people and have friends from all walks of life, all economic stations and many, many different races and ethnic groups. This is the way I was raised.
In the fifth grade three minority students attended my elementary school. The next year two were added. By the seventh grade my junior high was completely integrated. This all took place with no incident -- we just all went to school. The only other item that was related to integration occured in the 10th grade. "Dixie" had been the fight song and it was changed to "Hail to the Redskins". Again, no problems.
It's interesting . . . I went back to my hometown for eight years (2004 through 2012 early summer). I was talking with a former classmate and she brought up the integration subject. I can't remember exactly how this took place but it occured naturally. The lady commented, much as I did, that ours was peaceful and how we didn't have the problems that other areas did. I asked her if she was ever scared and she replied no, not really.
There's another precious memory I took with me from those eight years. My parents owned a dime store for many, many years. An older gentleman came up to me one day and said, "Antiques, your father just didn't see race. He loved everybody." That is so true. That store operated from the 40s until 1984.
I was truly raised to treat and respect everyone the same. I have always lived like that and my life has been greatly enriched because I do. Diversity and respect are very important agendas to me. I have worked with the public my entire life and, like my father, I just see people.
I grew up in So Cal and the schools weren't segregated.
If you don't tell us how old you are then we don't know at what point in time you experienced the schools in So Cal as not being segregated. Thus part of the value of your post is lost.
I was going to school in San Antonio when that all came down. It was pretty much no big deal as everybody got along down here. I think it probably effected the black folks more than the whites when busing started. We had several predominantly black schools that the kids got separated from their friends so they could be bused to a more white student school. The buses often ran late and quite a few had to leave for school hours earlier and get home hours later from the bus rides. There were also some white students that got bused as well but I think it effected the blacks more. My older sister was one that had to change schools. She attended a predominately black school and was transferred to a more white school- we're white. The education wasn't any different and she still was on the Honor Roll at both High Schools. As I came up thru the grades, nothing really changed. You had white friends and you had black friends and nobody really cared what color you were. I think the media made more of it than it was....kinda like the media today. You can't believe anything they tell you anymore. It's either a complete lie or the truth is so stretched out that it doesn't resemble the actual story.
I went to school in Southern Utah. Heck, are schools desegregated? Huh? No, all kidding aside, there just were not that many African Americans or American Indians to really notice. There is not much multi cultural diversity in Southern Utah. Even now. There were some black basketball players at BYU, I graduated in 1976. It is a lot more integrated now...sort of...
If you don't tell us how old you are then we don't know at what point in time you experienced the schools in So Cal as not being segregated. Thus part of the value of your post is lost.
Why does it matter? Schools in California were never segregated. That was a Jim Crow Southern practice considered foreign to the West. She could be 100 and her statement would be true. The closest thing to that there was the Japanese internment during WWII.
The main purpose of school segregation was to prevent inter-racial marriage/reproduction and preserve racial purity. We didn't have restrictions on that out West.
In the UK we didnt have any of this segregation rubbish . Back in the fifties there werent so many black kids at our school but they were some and treated exactly the same, or Id like to think so... segregation is awful and should never have happened..
If you don't tell us how old you are then we don't know at what point in time you experienced the schools in So Cal as not being segregated. Thus part of the value of your post is lost.
As far as I know, the schools in California were never segregated (at least during the lifetime of any poster here), and DewDI was merely stating that he grew up in a place where schools had never been segregated, so he had no personal experience with segregated schools. He helpfully pointed out that that was California, but it wouldn't have mattered if he had mentioned it or not, since his post was not about his own experiences, but a hearsay account of that of his grandparents, for which he did offer a time and place reference. Nothing of value was lost from his post.
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