The Necessity of School Integration

Student integration across privilege lines is vital to educational equity because it helps level the playing field and furthers world experience for the students involved. Adequate integration of schools is the first step to adequate schooling for those without access to it. Segregation, in its separation of schooling, closely connects the funding of schools to the average financial status of the group (in the US’s case, race.) In short, with school funding attached to the income of the area, underprivileged communities have far less opportunity for equal schooling when schools are segregated. Forced integration of schools would force empowered white legislators who only looked out for the education of white students to also provide for students of other races, because both groups of students attend the same schools. Further, within the schools, exposure to students of different races from different backgrounds would bring about positive effects, as it would both kill the aversion to the poorly known and give those of underrepresented groups opportunities to speak for themselves. For example, white people who known few black people, a poorly represented group in media, will develop their ideas and biases around media portrayal. When put in environments like schools with black people, white people will know them as people and will not entertain stereotypes and biases. School integration is necessary for both a quality educational and social future for further generations.