I do not personally believe that integration is completely necessary for one to receive a quality education. Integration, by nature, allows for one to have a very fulfilling experience. Children/peers are given the opportunity to recognize each others' differences and embrace them; and learn to communicate, work and collaborate with others unlike themselves in a professional setting. As rewarding as this may be, especially since students will internalize these experiences as they enter the adult world, it is not necessarily a critical implementation into the education system in order to improve the quality of education. Integration, from a racial or socio-economic standpoint, does not directly affect the content of what students learn: which is what needs to be improved. Although students' social experiences may be enhanced through integration, improving the quality of the material is a completely separate domain, and it doesn't begin with integration. Rather, ensuring that all schools have sufficient textbooks - and good ones; and qualified, encouraging teachers is a much more tangible step forwards than integration, which will entail complications. The idea of integration is significantly less tangible as it has so much more to do with experiences in school, and the only way to truly "integrate", has too much of an impact on neighborhood and geographic location.
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