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Refreshing the Brown v. Board of Ed legacy
« on: May 15^th, 2003, 9:00am »

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Thursday, May 15, 2003 Posted: 9:38 AM EDT (1338 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- People linked to the landmark school desegregation court case from almost a half-century ago will spend the next year reminding the public about how it came about -- and why it matters.

"Young people tend to take their education for granted. And when you start taking something for granted, it's not valued the way it should be," said Cheryl Brown Henderson, whose father, Oliver Brown, was the namesake of the Brown v. Board of Education case that the Supreme Court ruled on in 1954.

The Brown decision determined that separate-but-equal schools for white and black students were unfair and unconstitutional. Yet many people do not know the legal history. For example, the case encompassed almost 200 plaintiffs in four states and the District of Columbia, not just a single man in Topeka, Kansas.

A presidential commission will set up lectures, meetings and writing contests over the next 12 months, leading to the case's 50th anniversary on May 17, 2004. Organizers got the effort under way Wednesday, reuniting family members of plaintiffs.

They spoke of parents and church leaders who were fired from jobs and endured physical intimidation as they fought for equal treatment. That sacrifice and victory will be the foundation of the campaign, but it will also focus on today's challenges, Henderson said.

The commemoration comes as blacks continue to face greater struggles than whites in educational achievement and access, national statistics and surveys show.

In 2002, more than half of white adults gave their local public schools good or excellent marks, while only 35 percent of black students did, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Compared with whites, more minorities are enrolled in low-level classes and assigned to less qualified teachers, according to The Education Trust, a nonprofit that advocates for minority and low-income students.

"We've had more patience about this than the situation deserves," said Education Secretary Rod Paige, who is black and grew up in segregated Mississippi. "We should be running out of patience now."

Congress and President Bush, through the No Child Left Behind law, have mandated improved minority performance. States must show steady progress among all racial groups or risk federal intervention. By 2013-14, all students must be proficient in math and English.

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I feel that the american educational curriculum is severely lacking in 2 areas, and while adding more math and spanish requirements may help many people, they won't help in this area.

They could even be combined into a one semester course. They are "Anger Management" and "Basic Parenting".

How many of those students will go on and use geometry in their every day lives and careers, and how many of those students will go on and raise a family? How many of those students could benefit from even a brief course on anger management? I could go on for hours about this one. These are areas most kids do not get covered by their home life growing up, and it's something that's drastically needed to be covered, in my opinion. Y'all are welcome to disagree with me, but I think we'd see a major change over time in the way america is, the amount of children that are beaten, the amount of wives that are abused, if we would address this subject early with kids and give them the tools they need to handle both these situations.

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