|
|
|
|
|
|
by gjs278
2705 days ago
|
|
|
when I went to school a poor black kid stole a portion of my lunch every single day in 2nd grade (stupid policy that you had to leave your lunch on an unattended desk, he knew which bag was mine and took the granola bar.) my parents moved me to a catholic school which had basically no black kids. the bullying was still there but nobody ever stole from me or really anyone else. no fights basically ever. we move, I go back to a more diverse school. fights, my graphing calculator stolen... what’s the possible benefit of having poor people in your school? until social programs make it so my lunch doesn’t need to be stolen to feed a kid, I fail to see how the non poor students are better off. |
|
|
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/magazine/the-resegregatio...
To touch on your point specifically, I am sorry you had such a poor experience. You are right when you say that social programs need to exist so that children are not hungry at school. Education is supposed to be the great equalizer and yet America has provided education almost only for the rich and has consistently attacked the poor. But I also feel bad for the kid who had to steal from you every day just so that he wasn't hungry at school. Education and wealth are a combined, intractable problem in a capitalist country, but there are hundreds of places making the problem worse.