African-americans self segregating at BS

Dadxyz
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:02:08 +0000

A few years ago, our family moved to the southeast from the north. Some friends suggested a school district where the schools were “great”. When I visited the schools in these area, I found out that the school population were almost half Asian and half white, with few AA and Latinos. I talked to the high schoolers in the area and they told me the biggest issue in the school was the self segregating between the Asians and whites. At lunch time, you could see clearly an Asian lunch line and a white lunch line. Some parents told me that the kids were integrated very well until the beginning of the high school. I was concerned and start to search in other areas. I had an interesting observation. In schools where minorities are truly minorities, the minority kids are typically integrated well with the white, this is also true when white kids are in the minority. You can see the self segregation the most when you have a 50/50 situation. I wonder if anyone else has similar observations.