Does student integration in schools matter in order to ensure educational equity?

I believe that student integration definitely matters in order to ensure educational equity in schools. By putting students of different backgrounds, cultures, and socioeconomic statuses together, classrooms will be able to foster many intelligent discussions that take into account the views and experiences of a diverse population. By eliminating segregated schools, schools will cease to have minority groups that are often discriminated against and lack a hospitable learning environment. Although I doubt that having white children go to school with minority groups such as blacks and hispanics will decrease racist attitudes and feelings of superiority, I agreed with the point brought up on Friday that mere exposure to people who are different from us will help us grow fond of the thing that seemed so alien when we first encountered it. For example, I am sure we have all heard a song that we initially disliked but after hearing it several more times, we begin to tolerate and even enjoy it; the same idea applies to meeting people of different races so that by the time the students grow up, they will have grown accustomed to interacting with people who are different from them. For a small price of implementing a change in our school system, the benefits that will result seem to support the argument of student integration.