SEGREGATION, DESEGREGATION, RE-SEGREGATION:

LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT EQUITY IN OUR SCHOOLS

Session 2 - The Moderates Dilemma: The Lessons Learned from Massive Resistance
Questions and Thoughts

These questions and the corresponding thoughts on these issues were posed by speakers and members of the audience. They are posted here in an attempt to capture the major points of discussion during Session Two.

Question Raised - During this period, were the debates over massive resistance the same in the Black and white communities?

Thoughts - Probably not. Blacks were probably concerned about access to a quality public education versus being excluded from educational opportunity. Whites, on the other hand, were concerned about maintaining segregation versus token desegregation to save what was known as public education.

Question Raised - Did desegregation produce equality in education?

Thoughts - No. Equity is not accomplished threw the mere mingling of school children. There are still huge inequities in the public school system in Virginia. Facilities, teacher salaries, etc. are still not equal. These gaps are getting larger, not smaller.

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Posted: September 29, 1999
By The Educational Policy Institute of Virginia Tech
URL: http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/chre/elps/EPI/SYMPOSIUM/
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