Gracie Gibbons's CC Response

            While I feel that integration is an extremely important factor in a student’s life, I do not believe that it is the first step to be taken in the making of educational equity.  To be fair, integration would have many benefits, such as cultural awareness, minimizing prejudice in future generations, etc.  However, I believe that increasing funding in schools would be more effective than integration.  An increase in funding would make many improvements in schools, including: sufficient amounts of supplies like textbooks and other materials, making the student to teacher ratio as even as possible, and more.  Improving schools in this way is a long and tedious process, but I believe that it is very promising.  By being able to provide schools with the supplies that they need, they can provide the students with a good education, the basic goal of every school.  As this goal is reached, other goals will be reached within schools. Organized sports teams and clubs could form, providing outlets for students’ passions.  Enriching art and music classes could be introduced to schools as well.  These and many other benefits come with simply providing schools with the funding that they need, so that schools can grow and provide for their students.  Obviously, the growth and improvement of schools will not happen miraculously overnight, but what great movement did?  The road to success is long and sometimes painstaking, but the success and equality of these schools is inevitable when they are given the right tools.