Julia Fagan, School Integration Response

 I believe that school integration is definitely one of the vital pieces in creating educational equity. I say pieces because there is not one single way we can ensure equity in every school in the United States, however, eliminating blatant segregation within our schooling system is an enormous step in the right direction. While providing resources and facilities to an under-resourced school with a primarily minority student body would most likely improve the school's academic ranking, many conflicts may arise from this solution. Not only would attaining funding for every under-resourced school in the country prove almost impossible, but also our goal, to create a generally color blind society, would fail to be met if we do not increase diversity within our schools. Integrating, and therefore diversifying our schools, is a much more realistic way of ensuring an equal distribution of resources, qualified teachers, facilities, and extracurricular activities, while simultaneously creating a holistically well-rounded student; one who ignores racial stigmas and stereotypes. I believe integration would revolutionize education in the United States and our perceptions of minority students for generations to come.