Ethnic Diversity in Elem-Middle Classrooms by Brian Le

2025-07-09 14:17:23 UTC

Sometimes attempts at diversity end up more polarizing than collaborative

2025-07-09 14:17:26 UTC

It means that towns and cities have become more segregated as well. School districts then have different appropriations of funding based on the quality of the neighborhood

2025-07-09 14:17:32 UTC

I wonder if this has anything to do with a push for differentiation/ specialization of classes for specific needs (ex.: serving ELL students in a school specially focused on the learning English as a Second Language).

2025-07-09 14:17:32 UTC

This is not super surprising with the trend of selective suburbanization and de facto segregation increasing in urban areas

2025-07-09 14:17:36 UTC

long-term impacts of housing segregation/ housing trends
impact of private-schools/charter schools/ magnet schools in certain areas

2025-07-09 14:17:44 UTC

As an aggregate, the students attending US schools are more diverse, but specific schools themselves face more segregation.

2025-07-09 14:17:52 UTC

Private schools and wealthier families began sending children to private schools that opened around the times schools desegregated. Also zoning laws and cities. This is a major concept in urban sociology. Also that idea of white flight and moving to the suburbs.

2025-07-09 14:17:56 UTC

Not shocked, I went to a 99% white public school, and currently teach at a 99% Hispanic private school. Unfortunately, discriminatory housing policies from the 20th century have proved more lasting than de jure segregation laws.

2025-07-09 14:18:01 UTC

Wow this stat is quite discouraging. In public school, this would suggest that SES still strongly correlates with ethnicity.

2025-07-09 14:18:04 UTC

While schools are becoming more ethnically diverse, public schools remain segregated due to gentrification and the way redlining

2025-07-09 14:18:08 UTC

this is disheartening but not entirely surprising. I’ve seen it firsthand

2025-07-09 14:18:12 UTC

It is disheartening to hear this and putting in the context of the US history and the attempts of de-segregation

2025-07-09 14:18:15 UTC

The rise of majority white suburbs since the 60s and the way our public schools are funded by property taxes likely promotes homogeneous student populations

2025-07-09 14:18:22 UTC

Pushes for school choice??

2025-07-09 14:18:36 UTC

Bittersweet. Diversity is important, but it is also valuable to be in a community where you feel seen, loved, and familiar—especially as a minority.

2025-07-09 14:18:41 UTC

The quote shows that while schools may contain more diverse groupings of students: culture, classroom makeup, and failure to discuss our backgrounds make our schools more segregated.

2025-07-09 14:20:38 UTC

A lack of funding, social services, and information has created a system that keeps the poor poor. Historically, racial minorities make up a larger portion of the lower class due to systemic racism. The rich (of any race, but mostly white people) can afford to send there children to the “rich, white schools”