nd 60's. White flight to the suburbs has created its own separate and legal institution. Blacks and minorities are concentrated in inner cities. Busing has not proven to be an effective tool in achieving integration in today's public schools. Is it wrong? What effect does this have on our present children? Are they left with an inferiority complex because they are in school with children who only look like themselves? What effect will this have on our nation? What economic and political ramifications will they suffer? Whether or not "separate but equal" is legal, is not a question that the courts can really answer. We see that it is achieved when public citizens express their right to create neighborhoods where they are the majority or when they invest their dollars in private school education. How do we prepare our children in a separate, equal, legal or otherwise created segregated school system? How do we ensure that our children are not left out at the table of opportunity? Perhaps the concentration should be on the quality and not the color of education. I do not suggest that was the feeling present during 1954. I believe the Brown's and the other plaintiffs were more concern that their children were in an unhealthy and in a less than challenging environment due to allocation of resources. Whether or not Black children received the same quality of education as their white counterparts in the same school is debatable. A recent school system audit in Dekalb County Georgia revealed large disparities in allocation of resources. The auditors found that forty percent of its schools demonstrated little evidence of active learning; maintenance and safety were inadequate, and that these disparities existed mainly due to race, gender, and socioeconomic status. If separate schools exist, and funds are not spent responsibly across the board, then Black parents must ensure that tax dollars are funneled and spent responsibly in our schools. ...
