christophwarner<p>Just had a conversation with Noliwe Rooks and I strongly recommend her newest book. The question I asked, “Do we need to go back to segregation for k-12 in 2025” It wasnt a gotcha question and her answer was obviously no, that’d be ridiculous. In many respects school education is already segregated, even now.</p><p>That said, the dearth of black and brown educators, districts being created out of thin air because “black”. Black and brown students being left out of AP programs, black and brown students labeled sucidial or as problem students, the lack of challenge, all the things that we talk about as family and friends. The data doesnt lie and so we disagree, integration has failed our children, historically and now.</p><p>This isn’t a controversial take, these are the facts and I understand her wanting us to model programs from the 20-30-40’s. However those programs operated under the guise of what would be allowed, lacked funding and educators. We need targeted schools that support black/brown kids, that teach history as it is. When we talk about HBCU’s no one blinks an eye… we need the same exact thing for K-12. I know some of us are already starting the work, we don’t need segregation or de jure segregation but we certainly need K-12 institutions targeted to and for black and brown children and shouldn’t be afraid to say that.</p><p><a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/integrated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>integrated</span></a> <a href="https://discuss.systems/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>segregation</span></a></p><p><a href="https://a.co/d/fzLulU6n" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">a.co/d/fzLulU6n</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>