Daisy Hernandez
1/8/2016 09:52:29 am
The article of the week was published on January 4, 2016 by James Ford. This article was written because of how segregation was back then and there was little race distinguished. As he says “At age five, I learned the meaning of the word “nigger” from classmates who didn’t hesitate to use it in reference to me.” I can see why people hated that word because back then it was like offending most people, but nowadays people just say that word to everyone. In his article it also says that his sister and him both had to take a twisted route to go to school. Most people still do that just to go to school and it it is sad how this world was made. He also says “ She turned to our fellow classmates and asked, “Which is better, a black dog or a white dog?” She paused, and then answered, “Clearly, the white dog is better.” She followed up, “Do you like vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream?” This statement made him stronger instead of bring him down. Now it was black and whites in the same school even though their were still racially comments. In 1980’s things began to change slowly because they were trying to make classes more diverse. Segregation however did not hold back students from wanting to study and keeping their heads up. After the Brown V. Board of Education went through the separating of color in schools was over. This made a change dramatically because blacks, hispanics and other races were able to go to the same school. Even though most people think this is completely gone it is not there are still racial comments and movements towards hundreds of people just because of their color race. This article shows a lot of background information that was going on.
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Armoni
1/10/2016 08:26:09 pm
By reading this statement I could not infer which approach this student is taking but I do agree to the overall subject that there are still racial issues occuring in our school systems today. Mr. Ford did in fact have a harsher experience then students may now have as we do embrace the word nigger a lot more then we should. So I understand where you're coming from, from that stand point.
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Yeibin Sanchez
1/10/2016 11:58:24 pm
I completely agree that racism is something that has been and still is going on for a long time, but I think k someday it will go away for good. I might not be alive to see that day because it would be really hard to change the mind of every single peron, but slowly but surely it will. I'm just glad that I was not living in the time when racism was big because it would have been harder to live especially since I am Hispanic which was considered lower to a black person and even lower to a white. However, those time are over and we should continue to do things like Ford did because if we keep reminding kids and teens about the past the future will just be something bright.
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PhilIp Marsh
1/11/2016 10:06:33 pm
By reading this statement I complete agree with your statement about racial problem, It still goes on today believe it or not, its not mostly African American anymore. For example MTV Australia made a racist joke toward the two Latino in the golden globe awards. His exact words "Where are the English subtitles? We have no idea what @AmericaFerrera and @EvaLongoria are saying #GoldenGlobes,”. He made himself look like a fool and was put in his place, but just because someone doesn't have the same accent as him and speak the same language as him, he doesn't have to make fun of them.
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Jasmine K
1/8/2016 10:21:50 am
According to the article “What School Segregation Looks Like” by Logan Cyrus demonstrate critical issues embedded in our society today and many years ago such as social and economical issues .Although it ages we as black,white and other races are still segregated.
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Armoni
1/10/2016 08:34:52 pm
By reading this statement I conclude that this student took the Marxist approach in which I agree. Social class does base off of wealth and like you say all blacks sent rich nor are they all poor. I also agree with the fact that you said it's the educators fault. Like you said, how's a five year in the right mind to know the difference between race or depict which ones better than the other? Again, like you've stated, it's all in how they were brought up. I also like the fact that you explained a personal situation such as your ethnic background.
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Philip Marsh
1/11/2016 10:28:34 pm
I fully agree with this personal statement, in the past black people were at the bottom of the food chain and wasn't even consider a full person. They were scolded, ignored mistreated, and forgotten unless they were needed. Society use to classified black as weak and lesser being that only get what they are given, while white people were the kings, the masters, the so call bosses. Our power shouldn't come from our skin color, it should come from our words and our actions
Armoni
1/8/2016 12:11:38 pm
It is widely believed that white supremacy ideology of hatred promoted by violent groups such as the KKK, or the Aryan nations. The article, What School Segregation Looks Like by former Garinger HIgh School teacher, James E. Ford demonstrates the traditional outlook on race and social class as whites are seen as the “better” race. James E. Ford was a product of an integrated schooling experience in a school system that was otherwise highly segregated. Mr. Ford uses his very own experience to reflect the way in which dominant groups, in this case the white people, exploit the subordinate groups, African Americans and/or Latinas. The school system is a prime example of the way in which people become alienated from one another through power, money, and politics. With rules set in place that requires students to attend their home schools which would be located in or very close to their neighborhoods, there is little hope of diversity. When you have higher income families who send their kids to schools such as Ardrey Kell and lower income families who send their kids to schools such as Garinger you are in not too many ways segregating those kids. The kids placed in these schools will develop mindsets that one’s better than the other or one’s less fortunate than the other. This also comes into play when you have schools with more resources than one another or little programs such as free lunch programs and less space for student parking. Simple things like that are based off of the ideas that the lower class probably won't have cars therefore their student parking lots are a lot smaller or their probably not going to do their work so they shouldn’t waste money on textbooks. Nonetheless whites are expected to be elite while blacks are expected of nothing. This has been an ongoing issue for centuries yet we turn the other cheek. One’s race should not determine their future nor their character.
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Sandra C.
1/8/2016 01:19:33 pm
Biographical critical lens is to see the piece of writing through the author’s eyes ,The article we read was written by James E. Ford. Mr.Ford taught at Garinger high school . Mr. Ford wanted to show students the real outlook on how schools do not purposely but do segregate kids by their poverty level into title one school or even their race , determining their success level. The reason behind this topic is because he can personally relate to it . Being an African american child in Rockford Illinois he feels strongly about this topic because he was a child who grew up being bullied for the color of his skin. Being he has been through this himself it limits the text because you can't look at this article from a feminist point of view because the author is a male . Even though though he wrote in his about his personal experiences you could even look at this article from an historicist lens because he mentions the Brown vs. The board of education case . This case in May 17th 1954 allowed the United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Therefore Mr.Ford sharing his experiences is showing how today's children are being influenced on how they are “placed” by their home school .Believing that placing kids in a specific school will gather diversity because of the community , When we have certain boundaries of what school we go to it has kids in schools such as garinger believing they can only do but so much because they go to a title one school , There for it takes us back to when segregation shows that whites were superior when that is untrue because your race should not present your worth or academic achievement level , So Mr.Ford is showing how his lifestyle growing up and can relate the the children today who nonchalantly don't realize segregation is still an issue.
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Emani Lee
1/10/2016 11:04:46 pm
I agree with your blog post. You can tell Mr. Ford is a strong minded smart man. He's going to tell you stuff that you don't want to hear but you should. He is going to tell you what everyone one else is scared of saying. He is only speaking from experience and knowledge. You can tell, Mr. Ford is a very wise man.
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Julio Campos
2/18/2016 09:11:29 pm
I dont necesarrily agree with this sentiment. Mr. Ford is not doubt a an intelligent, and enlightened man but he still doesnt offer any real solution to the problem at hand. He does bring up one CMS program that aims to solve this problem, but not much else. This isn't just a social problem, its a socieo-economic problem. I think the plan of attack starts at a federal level and state level. We most remove fiscal conservatives who cut funding for title 1 schools like Garinger. We must create a system in which Schools with predominatily lower middle class students have a quality education. That means rennovating building, hiring people with the correct qualifications. I say lower middle class not to take away from the plight of minorties but a more realistic approach of things. Most minorities, are in fact lower middle class. Classism, facilitates segregation.
Cristina Aragon Figueroa
1/8/2016 02:25:45 pm
In the article, What Looks Like school Segregation by James Ford, demonstrates the difficult that is society. This article is based on Critical Historical segregation during 1980. He is a very experienced teacher about segregation because they suffered too as a child for being just a kid color . James Ford hardly a child who did not know about racism, in an age where innocence captures the mind of any child, a kid abuse and shy because the society gave him discrimination, but despite all achievement to be even stronger despite insults that others did to him. The society at that time was critical because parents do not teach their children about the various races in the country, did not teach them that they need not discriminate against other people because of their color or their economic situation was the opposite but because the abuse he received was not nice, it was very sad, because the child was barely beginning to develop his mind, where on many occasions he did not know when they were comparing him like step on one occasion with a girl where she Always thought that obviously the vanilla ice cream was better than chocolate; with this we can see that even with colors or objects we can begin to discriminate people and this teacher that's what trying to teach his students at the Garinger school with 5 years experience in being a teacher, that no matter the segregation of society on them just because been at the Garinger school, and this school was classified as less opportunity to graduate because the area where students live is not good according to society and that is the problem of society we rely on how people dress or where they live to see such as, but not because we are all equal, no one is more or less than another person, regardless of race or color, all that matters is how we are and how we respect everyone. James Ford was the 2014-2015 North Carolina Teacher of the Year.
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Pedro Saenz
1/8/2016 05:33:27 pm
Well I decided to respond to Mr.Ford's article “What School Segregation Looks Like” with marxist criticism. I want to start off by saying that the article was very interesting. This article
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Aliyah P.
1/8/2016 07:48:25 pm
The article, “What School Segregation Looks Like”, by James E. Ford, is a man’s thoughts and personal experiences in life. Mr. Ford is a man who has been “through it all”, or at least most of it, by having lived during one of the most important parts of history, Desegregation-Integration, being picked on by the color of his skin, and the subjection of racial slurs thrown his way. This man has had to attend a predominately white school, with only a handful of other African-American minority children, just so the school could stay within code of the new law of integration within schools. Now, today, spending his time talking with students from Garinger High School about what society thinks and expects from us, the minorities, he wants us all to be aware on how we are basically “categorized” and “sectioned off” into different schools and neighborhoods. That it is the way society has us, has made us, and wants us. Ford wanted nothing more than to spread and share his knowledge with today’s generation to make a difference in the world. Ford wants us to be on the same page together with each other so as to not become more statistics. Acknowledging that segregation holds us down whether we support it or not, because it “divides access” to opportunity, he feels no teacher/educator should ever have to have to tell their students this sad truth. James Ford knew that the elementary school he went to was “academically superior” to his home school, and even with all of the insults and name calling and rude gestures that the other students and teachers gave him, the whole experience has helped shaped him in making him into the wonderful-community involved man that he is today. In his sense, students being able to learn from each other and getting acquainted with one another, creates a more rich cultural environment than what the past generations have done.
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Abdirahman Mohamed
1/15/2016 12:07:13 pm
oh yea Mr Ford has been through it all,if i was him i don't think i would've been in that class for long, because i would've been fighting them kids for shouting racial slur,that's just not cool to be calling people out of their mother given name
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Fred
1/15/2016 12:20:56 pm
I agree with your blog post. Mr. Ford had to endure a lot growing up when he did and also going to a school where the white children basically talked down to him and about his race. Even with going through all of that he didn't let that get to him and change who he was.
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Aimee
1/9/2016 03:31:06 pm
"Legal segregation began in 1896 when the Supreme Court sanctioned legal separation of the black and white races in the ruling H.A. Plessy v. J.H. Ferguson, but the decision was overruled in 1954." (Ask.com) In the article "What School Segregation Looks Like" by Logan Cyrus, describes what it was like to grow up in segregation days in a former Garinger High School Teacher's experiences Mr. James E. Ford. Mr. Ford revels how it was to be a student in a well populated white school (Brookview Elementary) in Rockford, Illinois. This demonstrates the division Mr. Ford had from him and other white students at the school. Segregation plays a part in today's society because still there's a "Popular" race that believes no other race is above or will be above them making themselves seem more important than any other race such as the African American and Hispanic race. Mr. Ford stated in the article that he had to learn how to endure such things as insults, and slurs, it makes sense considering that the school was filled with white kids back then that believed they were more fitting than blacks. As a student in Garinger High School the majority of the students that are here or considered minority's including myself because that's what basically makes up the school, so the students that are here are looked at as less educated, low mannered, and violent. In certain areas in North Carolina there's segregation invoked rather it's trying to be or not, such as schools like Garinger, Vans, And West Charlotte where it's primarily Black and Hispanic students that go to these schools and gives off a sense of a minority school. The system places students of the "minority" families or the so called "low income" families in these areas making them separated from those that go to well know white schools around North Carolina. Mr. Ford's explanation in the article does not make it hard to believe that racism and segregation still continues to exists in today's society.
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Vy Pham
1/10/2016 08:16:29 pm
I agree with you that through this article, we can see that the racism is still exists in our society today. There’s nothing to be surprised when he truly understand about what will happen to segregation schools. He has suffered all of those so he has sympathy with the kids who face with segregation.
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Emani Lee
1/10/2016 10:50:35 pm
These were the same points I was getting at in my blog post. Society is ridiculous, with how they portray one thing but is something totally different. Just as much as it disgusted Mr. Ford It disgusted me. I never thought of it in this aspect. It was a great article because it effects all of us who attends this school
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Fred
1/9/2016 10:05:01 pm
The “What School Segregation Looks Like” article written by James E. Ford is primarily conveyed through biographical critical lenses. This article, being reported through the perspective of an African-American male, allows me and other readers to connect with the author more, being that he was a teacher at our school. Mr. Ford was raised like many of us, being a statistic that wants nothing more than to be viewed better than what they’ve portrayed as. Discussing the topic of minorities and how they are viewed is a difficult pill to swallow. Although it is hard to admit, Garinger High School is undeniably segregated. Filled with mainly blacks and hispanics, our school is not on the same level as other schools like Mallard Creek High School. Where they have an exceptionally diverse school backed with middle class white American, Garinger is quite the opposite. Many people would assume that because we are composed mostly of minorities, we will not have the same opportunities and liberties that others do. Mr. Ford says in his article, “ But first, we must wrestle with the fundamental question, “Who are we?” Are we a community that responds to the needs of every student and values the benefits of integrated schools?:” This statement allows the reader, students and teachers, to have a self-reflection on schools and themselves. Being that Mr. Ford received the Teacher of the Year award shows that perseverance and determination play key roles on changing the stigmas attached to you. Some people believe stigmas define you and how you respond to life but this article shows that just because you go through some tragedies doesn’t mean you will always go through them. Overcoming obstacles can be done no matter what you face. Segregation is not a problem among blacks nor hispanics. Segregation stems from a fear that needs to be diminished.
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Vy Pham
1/10/2016 08:07:48 pm
This article truly shows the truth in our society today. Through his own experiences, Mr. Ford determines what his thoughts about the school segregation. Although the road was tough and rough, he still tried his best to become a good person, and his reward was to become Teacher of the Year.
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Vy Pham
1/10/2016 11:48:22 am
Segregation is one of the basic concepts of the sociology, it is defined as the ranking in a stable manner in the social positions considered from the perspective of power, privileges, and equality. The article, “ What school segregation look like”, written by James E. Ford has talked about this issue in the schools through his experience. He truly tells his story in a deep and meaningful way. Mr. Ford was a former teacher at Garinger High School, so in the second sentence of his very first paragraph, the word choices he introduces this school are “ high-poverty, majority-minority, and distinctly urban”, although he honestly uses such negative words which are related to the segregation, however he does not feel shy away from the kids which shows his empathy and compassion with his students. The stereotype that society believes about segregation causes a massive problem to the race. His emphasis about the environment he had live in was the reason why he has sympathy for the students who go to the segregation school. It is extremely touched when he talked about the time when he went to the integrated school, and had to deal with racist issue. Until today, the segregation is still exists in not only this country but also around the world, so there’s nothing to be surprised when hearing the comparison between being a black or a white person because it is human being. Mr. Ford is representing as the product of an integrated schooling that most of the people usually deny the rights of equality. There are many cases condemn the school system mistreated its students from the past, however the opinion of people seems unchanged. Although the school segregation system and the way the kids are treated are unenthusiastic and indifferent, those are motivation for students to get into a good position in order to prove the society that they are better than what people think.
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Aimee
1/11/2016 12:09:38 pm
I second hand that segregation is a concept of the sociology. I can also say we both spoke on Mr. Ford in a positive way which in what he did for the students and trying to explain to us of how segregation really is and how it is in are very own local schools here in Charlotte NC. It's bad to think of someone less than your own kind because of the color of their skin.
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Karen Escobar
1/10/2016 11:52:40 am
United States believe America is completely equal, but still today certain schools are going through segregation. The article, “What School Segregation Looks Like”, by James E. Ford inform us how segregation is still occurring today. The author of this article uses his background experience to refer on how segregation still occurs in today's schools. Teaching at a high-poverty and majority-minority school inspired him to write this article and get closer to his students. It was such a great bond he created with his students that he even became the teacher of the year in North Carolina newspaper. Mr.Ford background and the way he was raise was very impressive and admirable, but yet full of conflicts.At a young age instead of Mr.Ford worrying about toys and cars he was constantly bully because of the color of his skin tone. At a very young age Mr.Ford had to learn the true meaning of segregation. At the grade of first grade Mr.Ford attended Brookview Elementary school. Brookview Elementary school was located at the east of Rockford in Illinois. Although he lived in the west side he attended school at the east side. Reason being because the east side had better schools. Which were full of white kids with a higher education opportunity. Segregation was a huge deal in what was all east and west side of Rockford, Illinois. Segregation is defined to be the separation of different racial groups in a country or in a community but it’s been proven that is more than that. Mr.Ford was a victim of it. During his time at school he will be called racist names and will always be picked on by his other classmates. Mr.Ford wasn’t only bullied from his classmates but also treated differently by his teacher and the school staff. He eventually left that school because there was an organization known as “People Who Care” who sued the Rockford Board of Education. Later on Mr.Ford attended CAPA which was located in the west side of Rockford. There he realize that CAPA students were full of bright and creative ideas. Years later we find Mr.Ford teaching at a high-poverty and majority-minority school. Where there he realized that also at Garinger High school in a way there students were going through segregation. He believes that “Society don’t expect a lot from Garinger students”. Reason being because of where the school is located and because the majority of the students are colored students. Mr.Ford will talk to his students and try to gain there trust in able to teach and help them be better persons. Mr.Ford doesn’t see color because just like his students he also was seem as someone less and not worthy. Mr.Ford was a great teacher full of compassion for his students. He created this article to inform us what segregation looks like and help us create an image in our minds to know what segregation really is. Although he was a great teacher he would have never been able to understand what his students were going through as colored students, if he wouldn’t have went through what he did during his childhood.
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Sandra
1/10/2016 08:26:34 pm
I completely agree . We sit here and think america is a place we call free but in reality it's far from it . By Mr. ford writing this article he is showing what it's like to be put down for your race . He brought an issue that is still going on today to light for students at Garinger to show that segregation is far from over . Without him growing up the way he did he wouldn't be able to help our generation today With the knowledge he has provided the student of Garinger makes the students believe that no matter what thier race is that can accomplish anything .
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Kendall Perkins
1/10/2016 01:02:33 pm
The article , "What School Segregation Looks Like" Is based to my opinion a Biographical Critical Lens . Mr. Ford wonders why students are being divided and being separated from different schools . He wonders the faces of students skin color and languages are not alike. Mr. Ford explain his teaching at Garinger High School and he said it was Amazing. But Mr. Ford also explain the home of the wildcats how it was a symbol of our local system. He made a speech on the first day of each semester . He said in his speech that its ok for students to doubt themselves. In Brown V. Board of Education 1954 The Supreme court outlawed Segregated public education for Whites and Blacks on a state level.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended all state and local laws requiring segregation.Board set in motion did have its impact, for a time, it didn't endure. Today, segregation is resurgent all across the country. In this article Mr. Ford said that he learned a lot when he was at Brookview. He Learned the word Nigger when he was 5 years old from his classmates. Also Mr. Ford mention the white dog is better and explain what flavor of ice cream is better , Chocolate or Vanilla ? of course vanilla was superior. In 1989 The Rockford Board of education was sued by a parent against blacks and Latinos. A point in the article I seen was segregation did not exist to hold back blacks. Its existed to protect them. Mr. Ford question , Do we want to live in a integrated society ? Are we an inclusive or exclusive community whether. It depends on how people see it .
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Lorie M.
1/12/2016 10:12:11 am
If you read closely, he only speaks upon the segregation within the school district within North Carolina. Could it just be our district or our state. I've been schooled out of North Carolina or even our district. Whose to say most of the other districts surrounding us or in other states doesn't have a greater amount of diversity.
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Lewry H.
1/10/2016 03:03:29 pm
The article of the week “What School Segregation Looks Like” by James E. Ford, Ford uses his connection and personal experience of the issue to show how it still exists. J. Ford talks about how he had to put up with name calling and insults by students and staff. He did not went to his neighborhood school, the school he went to was academically superior “Brookview Elementary” to his neighborhood school. Most of the kids there were white and thought to be above the minorities kids, like a girl who asked another student “Which is better, a black dog or a white dog?” she quickly answered “Clearly, the white dog is better.” she then asked “Do you like vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream?” she then answered the “everyone knew” that vanilla was better, but everyone knew she was not talking about ice cream of puppies. Also he experienced hateful words at a very young age like “At age five, I learned the meaning of the word “nigger” from classmates who didn’t hesitate to use it in reference to me. I don’t recall having much discussion after it was said. I just remember tearing up and going into a blind fury.” Segregation and racism still exist and it’s a really important to realize that it’s everywhere, it might not be out in the open but if you pay attention you will be able to find it. Although people like to call the United States “equal”, people of color still have it hard and work twice as hard or harder to get something that someone white would get easily. Many people fall into a stereotype because of their skin color, like a criminal, uneducated, drug dealer, violent etc. If you see someone someone of color pass near you at night you have a completely different thought than if someone white would.
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Isaiah
1/10/2016 09:51:13 pm
I agree, but we shouldn't let things like that get to us.
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Cristhian Epitacio
2/19/2016 10:21:23 pm
I Agree segregation and racism still exist, even though its not noticeable as back then. Everybody had at some point experience some type of racism. The school system is design for minorities to classify themselves in categories that in reality do not exist and matter. People should be value by what they have accomplish or have to offer, not their skin color.
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Jose Ortiz
1/10/2016 05:57:55 pm
The article “What School Segregation Looks Like” by James E. Ford. He use biographical and historicist criticism, to develop the main idea of the passage. Mr. Ford was raised in the second worst city in Rockford, Illinois. The city he and his family live were separated into two side, the west and the east. He was living in the west side were mostly all the black and latinos people live because that was the lower working class. The east side were mostly for the white people because they were the middle and upper working class, they also work hard to reach their dreams. At a young age, Mr.Ford didn’t play with toys and cars he was constantly bully because of the color of his skin tone. In his first grade Mr.Ford attended Brookview Elementary school. Brookview Elementary school was on the east of Rockford in Illinois. He attended to the school on the east side because of the good opportunity for him and better academic performance. Later Mr.Ford get into CAPA which was located in the west side, he realize that CAPA was his place to be, a place were students were full of bright and creative ideas. CAPA was a place that he had never seen before. Last years Mr. Ford become the teacher of the year 2014-2015 which indicated that he is and inspirations for all his students and people because he had past a lot of difficult time on his life. His students at Garinger High School are very proud of him for becoming the teacher of the year because he deserved and more. Mr. Ford still questioning if “Are we a community that responds to the needs of every student and values the benefits of integrated schools? Or are we a community that just talks about the idea of fairness, while simply accepting inequities in the name of self-interest?” Mr. Ford is currently working as the program director for the Public School Forum of North Carolina.This article was created on January 4, 2016.
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Sandra
1/10/2016 08:33:31 pm
I don't totally agree because I feel as a if we are still a community even though we are segregated to go to a title one school we still can accomplish many things. We're placed into this "box" that people believe if we go to a title one school we are not intitled to go far which is wrong , we might not have people being fair to us as students but we don't need a community or a title to show what we can accomplish . There for we might not live in a community where all of every students needs are met but that does not define who we are and what we can do .
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Cristhian Epitacio
2/19/2016 10:35:11 pm
I believe that every kid regardless of their location and economic position should have the right to a good education. It was not their choice to lived in poverty, so why denied them chance to improved their life. Are we really that selfish that we do not want to share our greatness.
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Jasmine E
1/10/2016 08:28:28 pm
The article, “What School Segregation Look Like”, by James E. Ford. It's through a man's personal experience in his life. Mr.Ford is a African American male, and he knows how it feel to have been through it all in life. He was picked on about the color of his skin. Mr. Ford has also attended a predominantly white school, with only a little African American students there only for the school to not seem races and to also stay in code. Mr. Ford was once a Garinger High School Social Studies teacher. Now in day in age he talks with students at Garinger High School about what he wants us to very aware on how that we are basically “categorized” and “put off” into different neighborhoods and even different schools. And he also told them “that they all fit into somebody's stereotype.” Mr. Ford also said that, “ Garinger are less likely to graduate than students elsewhere.” James Ford wants us to be on the same page that he is on. Knowing that racism hold us behind in life, James Ford feels that no teacher/educator should have to tell their students this. Knowing the school he went to and the bad experiences he had such as insults, name calling and racist comments that others said to him. And he also says that, “the whole experience has help made him the man he is today. Whites expect elite while African Americans do nothing, that's where Mr. Ford wants us to do nothing about it. And no more what they do in life they should not be judge or determined their future bass on their character or the color on there skin.
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Isaiah
1/10/2016 09:37:28 pm
I kind of agree with what you saying, yes he wants us to be aware that we fit a stereotype, but that's life. Racism been around for a long time. Honestly its never going away. Its not going to hold you behind in life unless you let it. Everything do not have to be taken as an insult, sometimes we must learn to brush our shoulders off.
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Isaiah B.
1/10/2016 09:29:03 pm
According to the article called 'What dose school segregation look like" by James Ford, published by Charlotte magazine uses historicist criticism, as he connected his experience growing up to develop the main idea of the passage. Segregation is not just focused on the black kid or poor kid. There are huge up sides for any parent who wants their child to be fully functional in a diverse and changing world as an adult. 'We can no longer pretend to give children a world-class education in schools that don't look like the world.' - James Ford, 2014-15 NC teacher of the year.
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Fred
1/15/2016 12:29:44 pm
I like how I think you quoted Mr.Ford at the end of your response.
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Emani Lee
1/10/2016 10:44:14 pm
“As America becomes more brown, the question is not just whether or not we want integrated schools, but do we want to live in an integrated society? Are we an inclusive or exclusive community?”(James Ford) Mr. Ford is disgusted with how society has not changed in many years. “Society doesn’t expect much from brown people. That brown people all fit into someone’s stereotype.” Those are the exact words that he had to tell his kids every new semester for five years while working at Garinger High School. The crazy thing about it , the kids didn't even really understand what was going on around them. They were angered by what he said until he sat down and explained to these kids how society perceives them. Not their mothers or father, society. This may have been new information to the kids, but this was no news to Mr. Ford who has endured segregation in his earlier years with society’s school system. Still, to till this day there are school zone lines which tell you which school you are eligible to attend. Which is blindly ,but easily separating the browns from the whites. See, the thing is in 1865 slavery was abolished, but that sure didn’t keep “our society” from trying to keep our mind and intelligence below theirs.That’s why they try to maintain and keep minorities together, just like they used to do back in the day. Knowledge scares them, back then it scared them and even now it scares them. Educational systems should be enriched with multiple cultural backgrounds and beliefs. One school should not look better or have better things because the neighborhood around it is providing funds. Those funds should go directly to the county and it should be divided equally between the schooling system. We are the “United States”. We are one. Hopefully one day our society will began to act as one.
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Abdirahman Mohamed
1/11/2016 08:18:06 am
It seems like America isn't great at all,and it doesn't stand for what it says it does,because we are in the year 2015 and it feels like we are living in the 1950-60's it seems like everything our great leaders such as malcom and king fought for did nothing,school's are still segregated and when it comes to resources in schools some school are given more than others,neighborhood's are still segregated one side is given more than others,people are targeted for now reason,police using too much force on civilians.
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Julio Campos
2/18/2016 09:36:11 pm
America is working just as its meant to be, we are a capitalist society filled with racist. Naturally, classism will benefit those in abundance, Whites are in abundance, not minorities. Minorities are disproportionately poorer than whites because financially they've had a few centuries as a head start. I think this is the part where minorities need to get woke, we idolize the people on TV and Hollywood. This forces us to turn to crass materialisim as a means to vent our sub conscious worthlessness.
Aimee
1/11/2016 12:03:05 pm
I honestly agree with your comment because yes, society don't see "people of color' as anything great they think we are useless and dumb. I don't understand how a group of one race can be so judgmental about others, if you ask me I think they sort of envy are ways but don't want to speak on it. At the end of the day we are all humans and deserve equal rights no matter the skin color.
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YeibinIf Sanchez
1/10/2016 11:49:44 pm
History is something that we should all remember because it has a tendency to repeat itself once everyone forgets about it, that is why ever since we are put in school we are taught some history even if it might be who is our first president. When reading the article “What School Segregation Looks Like” by James Ford its hard to imagine Segregation occurring even after the civil war, but as we all know though the times change it is hard to change the beliefs of someone. This is why teens should be spoken to about events, that help shaped our country for the better. For example “Swann vs. Charlotte Board of Education”, a case that said busing could not be denied go kids and teens of color, so that they will not have to be fought for again. However, though could be hard to change an old generations mind the new generations are here to change the future of America for the good, and doing it with simple conversations, just like Ford did, goes a long way. And if you do not believe it will, look to the 1906s-1970s these were the years where black people got the right to vote officially;however, this could only happen with the voice of the young and the wisdom of the old. The older generation wanted change, but could do nothing because they were all worn out, that is why they passed their knowledge, so the younger folk could step up and change the future time for themselves and future generations. This is why the adolescents need to be taught and reminded each time, so they will not end up all messed up.
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Abdirahman Mohamed
1/11/2016 08:01:55 am
Segregation is one of the basic concepts of the sociology, it is defined as the ranking in a stable manner in the social positions considered from the perspective of power, privileges, and equality. The article, “ What school segregation look like”, written by James E. Ford was talking about this issue in the schools through his experience,Mr ford has been through a lot a child.This cycle of segregation has not ended yet even in this 21 century we are still segregated,title one schools are looked down on as if we can not accomplish anything,hispanics and blacks are placed on one side of town and placed in schools where there's nothing to little,while other school such as myers park are having great things that our school do not have,it seems like this cycle can't be broken down,and this what society place on minority.This is why teens should be spoken to about events, that help shaped our country for the better. For example “Swann vs. Charlotte Board of Education”, a case that said busing could not be denied go kids and teens of color, so that they will not have to be fought for again. However, though could be hard to change an old generations mind the new generations are here to change the future of America for the good, and doing it with simple conversations, just like Ford did, goes a long way. And if you do not believe it will, look to the 1906s-1970s these were the years where black people got the right to vote officially;however, this could only happen with the voice of the young and the wisdom of the old.That’s why they try to maintain and keep minorities together, just like they used to do back in the day. Knowledge scares them, back then it scared them and even now it scares them. Educational systems should be enriched with multiple cultural backgrounds and beliefs. One school should not look better or have better things because the neighborhood around it is providing funds. Those funds should go directly to the county and it should be divided equally between the schooling system.Mr. Ford also said that, “ Garinger are less likely to graduate than students elsewhere.” James Ford wants us to be on the same page that he is on. Knowing that racism hold us behind in life, James Ford feels that no teacher/educator should have to tell their students this. Knowing the school he went to and the bad experiences he had such as insults, name calling and racist comments that others said to him. And he also says that, “the whole experience has help made him the man he is today. Whites expect elite while African Americans do nothing, that's where Mr. Ford wants us to do nothing about it. And no more what they do in life they should not be judge or determined their future bass on their character or the color on there skin.
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Daniel Sims
1/11/2016 11:59:20 am
The article, “What School Segregation Looks Like”, written by Logan Cyrus, uses a sociological lens to portray the thoughts of James Ford, a former teacher of Garinger High School. Today, education is perhaps the most important thing someone can have to function in society. As he unveils his story to his class at the beginning of each semester, he shows students that there is a resurgence of segregation that is coming from racial and socioeconomic lines. Although his speech includes words with negative connotations such as “high-poverty”, he later informs the students that he was on a mission to “make sure they broke out of this destructive system.” Sharing his personal story with his class was his way of showing the class that even though “they all fit into somebody’s stereotype”, they are able to break free of the system, and he is a living proof. It also shows that even though society realized that they could not avoid integration altogether, officials sought after “race neutralizing” means like zoning and “home schools.” The purpose of an education isn’t just to enrich a person’s mind; it’s also to make a person more cultured. By having resurgence in segregation, this negatively impacts a person’s ability to become more cultured, and in turn decreases the amount of quality education a person in society receives. James Ford states that, “Although there is no cure-all for inequality, desegregation is a part of the solution.” In high poverty areas, schools are starting to look like Brown v. Board never happened. People are influenced by their environment and the people they interact with, and if the segregation in schools continue, the future generation will miss out on meaningful interactions with different groups of people, and will slip into the negative generalization of what society views them as.
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Lorie M.
1/12/2016 10:05:00 am
A great reference, but it is true. Most kids at Garinger are in awe when a a white child comes as a new student. Even I have become a custom to the shock. It isn't too many schools that socially diverse. Only school I know in Charlotte of such diversity is East Mecklenburg in comparison to Garinger.
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Philip Marsh
1/11/2016 09:49:45 pm
What School Segregation Look Like?
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Justin
2/19/2016 10:56:13 pm
I agree with the point he made that "it makes us think that one race is above another one". The perfect example is when the short girl said which is better a white dog or a black dog? That's like asking who's better a white man or a black man. Some say the white man is better because he's smarter, or he has nice silky hair, and nice eyes, but on the other hand some say a black man is better because of his physique, or because he's athletic and things of that nature. There's no difference a man is a man.
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Lorie M.
1/12/2016 10:01:12 am
In the article, What School Segregation Looks Like, by James E. Ford, a once outlawed act and its presence comes into question. In Ferguson, Missouri a man named Plessy sat with white people, identified himself as black, and was sent to the U.S Supreme Court. The U.S Supreme Court ruled the infamous quote “Separate but Equal” in 1869. In Topeka, Kansas the U.S Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal was deemed unconstitutional, because it violated the 14th amendment. Schools was officially abled to be integrated as of 1954. There was hardships of going to a predominately white school. In Little Rock, Arkansas nine kids were exposed to a newly integrated school that went public. Those nine black kids were called racial slurs, had objects thrown at them, and spat on. After a while, government officials had to get involved to protect those children. It even hits locally to where this article was written. Dorothy Counts was the first the enter Harding High in Charlotte, North Carolina. She remembered being called racial slurs and being spat on. She had so much spit on her new dress that it was soaking wet. She was glad to have that chance of exposure, but she eventually withdrew. It was too unsafe for her to continue, as she received various threats to her, and her family. A little over 60 years later and it it still a lack of educational equality in schools across the U.S, specifically in North Carolina. Mr. Ford knows all too well of the various accounts that has happened to others. He sees the lack of integration in schooling. He urges change. We all know social change in society takes a vast amount of time or doesn’t occur at all.
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Mya Sheppard
1/12/2016 10:04:04 am
In today's society we still face racial discrimination and segregation. Sixty years after Brown vs the Board of Education, separate and unequal education is coming back. In the article, “What School Segregation Really Looks Like” by James E. Ford, talks about his background growing up and the school system. The attitude of the article displays the historical literary criticism because Mr. Ford describes how his experience was when he was going to school in 1987. Ford wonders about the future for his students, who are growing up in an increasingly divided system. School segregation is often perceived as obsolete and outmoded. While some educators claim to believe the problem has been settled. Segregation is almost always linked to educational inequality and many of America’s schools are still segregated. Segregated schools normally have less resources and focus more on economic disadvantages students have. There are many kids that don’t expect much from their population because of where the live and how they look. So they may feel like they fit into someone's stereotype. Ford was a black male who grew up in a city that was ranked for the second worst city in the country for African Americans. Rockford, Illinois, was hard for a child of color in the 1980’s. At an early age Ford had to learn how to endure insults, slurs, and mistreatment from both classmates and teachers. At age 5 he learned the meaning of the word “nigger”. His classmates didn’t hesitate to use that word in reference to him. Things changed dramatically for Ford and other children of color after 1989, when the Rockford Board of Education was sued by a local parent. The parent believed that blacks and latinos were being discriminated against and that's when they authorized Brown vs Board of Education. Things changed dramatically for Ford and other children in 1989. Segregation didn’t exist to hold us back, it exists to protect us from it. The purpose of education is to enrich our minds but also to make you you a more cultured person.
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kodjovi ngonou
1/12/2016 10:10:56 am
In a country that has openly proclaimed a free country, many man of color still endure the mistreatment of other especially from white men and women. For many decades our ancestor including many leader such as Martin L. King, Malcolm X and many other have made sacrifices so the land call freedom land can be a place where we all live in peace but also have many open opportunity to improve in life. But how can we improve when people still want to segregate us, closing our door of freedom when we suppose to be free, burying our opportunity and pretend that we just incompetent and that they the one who have a brighter mind. They burn our ways to education, so how are we supposed to evolute or prove ourselves when we are not even given a chance. Father like son, Mother like daughter, they all took step toward changes for the best, there is a long road to walk, pain and insult with tear our eyes down but the end of the road will make our heart happy. Mr. Ford during his life as a young black African-American has injure things that a kid in any cases or racial statues should endure especially not from kids of the same age as him. But the difference in the skin color made it possible, even through all the disappointing experience in his early he still got a better education, got stronger through the pain and still get love from his people. A segregated person strive and today is the N.C. teacher of the year. It’s clear that all we have ever need is love, motivation and an infinite determination to turn the word segregation to desegregation, to show our true capacity, to show that many things matter but color. How can we all believe in the same God, be at church regularly while knowing our segregational decisions does not reflect our belief. In today's society, we have been blind by our surrounding, social media, social network who make us believe that segregation does not exist anymore but as we open our eyes and look around us we realise how not only school has been separated but society is too, all this make America not the greatest nation in the world but the fakest nation world wide. How can we expect a rising in productivity of a school when the school is treated as quarantine school while at the same time other school of the same district are provided with any resource they need. The world will not be fair until the time we start being fair with each other.
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Autumn F.
1/12/2016 11:57:13 am
In the article “What schools segregation looks like” by James Ford depicts how life was for himself when he was a kid and in school, also how it relates to the generation now. He provides information about the way he grew up and situations that has taken place in his life, his surroundings. Furthermore the comparison of the times back then and how they are actually still similar. Segregation in schools by race and financial classes, the discrimination and stereotypical views that are being portrayed. We as individuals have to break the code and understand what is happening around us and what is expected of us. Just because you live in certain places or have certain things does not make you less or more worthy, it does not determine your knowledge. You are what you make of yourself. He encourages students to beat the stereotypical system and be the best we can be. People are going to judge you because of your background or skin tone but that should not stop you from conquering your dreams or success. James Ford states how the struggles he has went through has made him a strong person and he has been recognized as teacher of the year. He grew up with the ability to go to a great school which kids in his home school neighborhood did not have the opportunity to. Even though he has gotten to go to a good school his treatment there was not always fair. Overall his experiences has built him into the person he is today. Reading his article has made me realize what kind of world we really live in , reality. Success is not off of what others may do or think about you it is about how you take your life into your own hands and pave your own way. This article reflects on how society puts individuals into categories that are so unrealistic and not a way to live. No race is more superior or even class we are all human.
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mariannie henriquez
1/15/2016 12:23:57 pm
In the article, “What school segregation looks like” by James Ford, this article shows how a kid can be discriminated even though they just start to understand society. At a very young age Mr.Ford had to learn the true meaning of segregation. At the grade of first grade Mr.Ford attended Brookview Elementary school. Brookview Elementary school was located at the east of Rockford in Illinois. Although he lived in the west side he attended school at the east side. Reason being because the east side had better schools. Which were full of white kids with a higher education opportunity. Segregation was a huge deal in what was all east and west side of Rockford, Illinois.Mr. Ford is a person who can speak about racism because he felt and lived it at a young age,Segregation is defined to be the separation of different racial groups in a country or in a community but it’s been proven that is more than that. Mr.Ford was a victim of it. During his time at school he will be called racist names and will always be picked on by his other classmates. Mr.Ford wasn’t only bullied from his classmates but also treated differently by his teacher and the school staff. but despite everything he grow up to be someone who I can look up to and not always we have to follow the rules of society, A segregated person strive and today is the N.C. teacher of the year. It’s clear that all we have ever need is love, motivation and an infinite determination to turn the word segregation to desegregation, to show our true capacity, to show that many things matter but color. How can we all believe in the same God, be at church regularly while knowing our segregationist decisions does not reflect our belief. Society at this time was the one who decided your “future” based on your background, back then parents were afraid to break society rules or to do something outside the box, so they just went with what “level” you had.
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Juan Aguilar
1/15/2016 12:40:13 pm
In the Article “ What School Segregation Looks Like” By James E. Ford, James Ford lived thru a time period of racial comments and disgrace. Ford explains to his students every beginning of the year how the world views them and what the world expects from them, Ford also explains how most seem mad and so confused just by looking at their face. Ford told them not to worry because he lived thuh all that hate and misjudging. Ford was a young black male that grew in a part of the town where poverty was a big issue. Many black people were treated bad and always giving the worst choices and low minimum wage jobs. Ford had a difficulty in school while he always treated bad and that stop until he switched schools and he had finally found a true friend that was there for him when he needed him. All this experiences were a life lesson to him because he explains this to his fellow students a Garinger High School. Ford simply wants a equal school were all students are treated with respect and always have a voice to speak. He became teacher of the year for North Carolina and he hopes now to change the school office completely so that every school is equal and not one is better than the other. All of this will soon pay off in the future for every bright mind.
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edgar m
1/15/2016 12:40:35 pm
The article, “What School Segregation Looks Like”, by James E. Ford, is based on James E. Ford and his life. It is written by an African American, who went to a school whose population was mainly white. At an early age he could see that we don't live in an equal society. Being an African American going to school which is mainly white was difficult for him. At a young age he would be insulted even bullied because of his skin color, not only by bellow classmates but by school staff. Because of that he learned the meaning of ‘“nigger” after being call that from other kids, which would then make him cry. While nowadays not only black but other races use that as a greeting. Still after being called names and made fun, that made him strong. Despite what he went threw he was aware that he was getting a better education than the other school across the river. But where you stay or live shouldn't choose weather you go to a good or bad school. But after all he went thro made him stronger and a better man. But then was able to meet the president of United States. Now he wrote an article to tell his life and to show what he did to get where he is now
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Josephat Kalume
1/15/2016 02:04:34 pm
Segregation and being judged base on skin color or your race is something that many people still faces in today’s society. In the article “ What School Segregation Look Like”, by James E. Ford, the character shows how being separate from other race affected his life. James E. Ford was a teacher here at Garinger High School for 5 years but, now he is known as Garinger High School teacher of the years. He grew up in an integrated system now he wonders about the future for his students. This articles shows how are racial inequality still impacts a lot of African american. This problem it’s just not in school it’s everywhere such as housing, medical care, employment, transportation, and police brutalities. Being a young African american and about to graduate and go out there in the real world on my own it scary because people judges your base on your skin color not your work. Also the school system need to get better because all the student should have the same education and opportunities but it not the case. The research shows that student who go to a white school have a lot of chances to be more successful than student who go the all black school. this was a parts of my senior graduating project i had search for all this information the issue is more deeper than we think it is, that why many African american are now a largest number in jail because they had a lot of pain of being judged because, there are black and the pain turn into a rages and anger so they think violence is the only way they can get the point across and that is the reason why this movement was created BLACK LIVES MATTERS.
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janigha young
2/17/2016 07:36:54 am
i agree with this statement because Mr. ford made a valid point on school segregation. He was one out of many who went to a school where the majority of the students were white. He stayed strong to all the bullying he was given. He even got stronger after the little white girl and her example of white ice cream dominating chocolate ice cream. Ford was a strong African american man who believed each student should be treated equally no matter what race or religion. After Brown. vs. Board he had gotten hid wish. Now schools had become diverse.
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Rakeem Harrell
2/19/2016 12:01:15 pm
I understand where Ford was coming from because as a child I was bullied for being a darker shade than the rest of the other kids. I was teased about Slavery, even though I had no affiliation with it. I was being bullied just for being African American and I had to stay strong through it. But, all in all, it made me a stronger person. My skin is a lot thicker than it was before. As long as you stay strong and never give up you can achieve anything.
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Verolinka Slawon
2/17/2016 08:41:38 am
School segregation is what Mr. Ford went through in this elementary school. School segregation is not something that started today or yesterday. It started with our great grandparents, now here we are in the same situation. People of colors or what we called the working class children attend the same school with their own kind than white children. We Have less materials provided to us and our learning environment is not built like children with money. What every one is missing or failing to acknowledge is that segregation is different today than 50 years ago. Schools at that time were in the same neighborhoods or cities or towns, but were designated white schools or colored schools. The schools were unequal in supplies and curriculum. Whites had better supplies and curriculum and coloreds had poor and inferior supplies, this is what we are going through today. Today schools are separated by suburban areas vs. urban areas. Because of a variety of events over the last 50 years (ex. riots, crime, drugs) began the white flight across the nation to the suburbs and also black people that were able to financially succeed. There is no easy solution to this problem and we need everyone to work together to figure it out. In order to stop school segregation, every child in this country need to go to school with other children, no matter what. School should not be based on how much your parents make or where you live. We should go to school that we want and feels like it's the best fit for us.
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Achelie Exalus
2/19/2016 11:58:14 am
I agree with your statement because the fact that we can't choose where we want to go to school is really unfair. They get to choose for us and sometimes we struggle a lot more than we would if we would be able to choose somewhere that would be convenient for us.
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Justin Hector-White
2/17/2016 07:34:05 pm
The color of your skin, your environment, and your house income should not be the reason you are judged or placed where people "think" you need to be. He's giving off the idea that just because you aren't as fortunate or live in a certain community doesn't make you better or less valuable than anyone else around you. Schools like Providence and Audrey Kell, those are the schools for kids of a high income home where they don't need as much support from the school district. Those kids are considered good kids and kids that'll have a better life than kids that come from Garinger Or West Charlotte. Garinger and West Charlotte are schools for those who are ghetto or from a low income background and are Title 1 school which get support from the school district. Society doesn't expect much from us which Mr. Ford states, they expect more from kids who come from houses and background of a stable income than families of low income. People are based off of those things and more, but only character and work ethic should be judged. You determine your own knowledge and you control the way people see you by the way you go about yourself, you are what you make of yourself. For James E. Ford, as a kid he was fairly discriminated by the color of his skin. At age 5, he was called nigger and was also questioned by a little girl about what's better ? A white dog or a black dog, as anyone would think..... What is the difference ?, it's still a dog. Back then the white dogs were considered better because of the color of the hair or the eyes. James E. Ford preaches to the youth today , no matter the situation always strive to be great & reach your highest potential . Ones who want what you have, or feel as if you are better than them or if they feel it's right, they are going to do things to sweep you off your feet and kill your dreams. Mr. Ford is a strong man that made nothing but better of himself through a tough time. Always keeping his head on the right path chasing his dreams, James E. Ford became teacher of the year helping his kids strive for greatness as he did.
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Verolinka Slawon
2/18/2016 05:58:54 pm
I agree with Justin's statement that said "they expect more from kids who come from houses and background of a stable income than families of low income". In our society today, this is how we are categorized by our fellow human beings with money. Our society feels like people with money children has better chances of getting somewhere in life than lower income children. Like Mr. Ford said, we can not make a change within our school system unless we are willing to integrate ourselves.
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Achelie Exalus
2/19/2016 12:02:40 pm
I totally agree, our skin color can't define who we are as a person or who we are going to become. The way Mr Ford has described his past someone could already predict where he would end up in life but it doesn't work that way. I mean look at him, he became the teacher of the year despite of all the comments he had received as a child, comments that could stay implanted in his head forever to make him give up on life but he did not.
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Nathalie Gutierrez
2/17/2016 07:44:42 pm
This article is all about how garinger mostly and talking about his school days as a little kid he use to live in a rich neighborhood with white people he use to get called names. Segregation is anywhere like in garinger we have so many cultures so many people who speak other languages it is always a good way to explore the diversity around us. Garinger has alot of bad news but people don't realize that Garinger is not what it seems to be we have teachers who want to be there and teach us to succeed in life for out future. Stereotypes is talked about with so many races in our school there many be one of those people somewhere around the school. There are alot of people around you learn about them they are maybe different then you or not because we all go through the same things.
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monet sawyer
2/19/2016 12:02:29 pm
I agree people have a lot to say about garinger but know the great things that we have going on here. Garinger has been known for a bad school back in the past. So now that the school is trying to do better the only people who really see it is the people going here. The news only captures moments of garinger when its negative. When great and positive things are going on they go unrecognized.
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Giang Dao
2/23/2016 05:47:48 pm
I just moved to Garinger this year, I don't know too much about this place, but the one thing I know about Garinger is a school has a lot good teachers, and they always help students when they need. And I don't think Garinger have any different with my last school or any schools in this Country.
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Freda Davis
2/18/2016 12:48:14 pm
In the article, "What school segregation looks like", James E. Ford speaks about the racial divide in our school system. He points out how depending on your skin color and your address, your education is limited. Ford gives two perfect examples in the article that not only shows the blatant discrimination within his school but also the subtle racism that goes on in school systems. Ford speaks about the racial slurs used against him when he was in the first grade. Calling him the N word or using analogies like chocolate and vanilla. The school had allowed students of any race to attend as long as they were in the proximity of the school which allowed him and his sister to attend. But not before long everything changed. The school had been sued for subtly discriminating against minorities. After this, Ford attended a magnet performing arts school which wasn't far from his home. This gave him and many other minorities the chance to have a great education and also be themselves. One that brought people together of all races and backgrounds. A good school doesn't have to mean a predominantly white school.
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Nathalie Gutierrez
2/19/2016 08:43:19 am
I agree with this whole statement about what ford said. He gives so many examples and flashbacks on his life and makes his connections to garinger it self. Racial names bring us down it hurts our feels alot we may all be different but dont call us names. "Survive the ignorance moving on outlast the innocence" is a quote that relates to this why cant we all move on. The past is the past we made alot of history. School segregation is in every school. There are many classes upper class lower class
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Rakeem Harrell
2/19/2016 11:54:07 am
I agree completely. Many people used to think (and still do) that white is presumed to be "perfect', but in reality, perfection doesnt exist. We as humans will never be deemed as "perfect". So when people make racial slurs, belittling other races, it's just irrigation and down right stupid. There's no point in segregating humans because we are all the same inside. We all feel, love, and care. No matter who you are you're still human.
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Verolinka Slawon
2/19/2016 12:04:43 pm
I agree with Freda because in the article, Mr. Ford talks about how going to the all-white school was difficult for him and his sister. After some years, his parents sent him and his sister to a school that best fit them. In this new school, he felt comfortable with his classmates and teachers. He were treated the same as everyone in the class. He felt like he belong in the school and he like his white teacher who love rap music and cut his hair to stop discrimination. His color did not matter where he were.
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Justin
2/19/2016 10:47:52 pm
I agree with this statement because, as I stated back then &I present you are being placed and fitting into someone's stereotype. Also, these racial slurs & analogies that Mr. Ford was being called are still used today. The difference about today & then is the youth uses that word as a greeting because they think it's "cool", not knowing where it came from.
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Julio Campos
2/18/2016 09:28:17 pm
Mr. Fords article, 'What School Segregation Looks Like' Mr. Ford displays an inviserating critique of the disparity in terms of educational quality we have today in terms of majority minority, and mostly white schools. I've never gone to a majority white school, but Mr. Ford has, and he clearly points out the difference in quality. 'The halls were clean, the class sizes were small.' I also think that Mr. Ford makes an incredible observation towards the end of the article, that being Whites are sub consciously prejudice, parents dont want their kids at Garinger because Ardrey Kell and Providence, because they're better schools. They want their kids they're because they're white schools, they see Garinger as 'Ghetto' or ignorant. However, they take a look at alumni population and try to make Brown synonymous with dumb. Thats their sub conscious prejudice.
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janigha young
2/19/2016 01:03:26 pm
i agree with this comment because Julio makes a great argument about parents choosing schools that are mostly white so that their children can have the best education. He is basically saying that desegregation is going on now within the communities in the world. just because a school has a majority of races, doesn't mean your child will no get the best education. Julio is also saying to not judge a book by its cover.
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Nathalie Gutierrez
2/19/2016 09:38:15 pm
I agree with this statement we all have a unique character we are different from the other schools. Our school background may have a bad image why don't they focus on the postive things about garinger. White schools may have more resources bc they are in the upper class we are almost to the middle class. We lower class families get treated differently with how there income is we may get more benefits but we are still called a terrible school. All of our schools have segregation wherever you go we are not the same.
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Giang
2/23/2016 05:31:57 pm
I don't know why people so matter about white school, or majority-minority, because they're all in US, and I think we have same education, the problems is the ways how the kids learn in school,if they have a good school with all white people but if they just go to school to talk and text on their phone, they're still such.
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Giang Dao
2/19/2016 08:42:16 am
The article, " What is School Segregation Looks Like' by Mr. Ford, is a man’s thoughts and personal experiences in life. Mr. Ford was a teacher here at Garinger High School for 5 years but, now he is known as Garinger High School teacher of the years. In this article, she showed us, a lot parents don't want their kids go Garinger because they thought Garinger is a not place for their Kid, and they're better school. I think we are living in US and education is same.
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2/19/2016 08:43:10 am
I agree with Mr.ford all the way because at my school there are only African Americans and some Hispanics . I believe that's mainly because we all live in the same neighborhoods and also because some of us are considered lower class . At my school we are also stereotyped because of how we look and not our abilities . Some of the kids make poor choices and so all children are looked down on and placed in a certain school zone .
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monet sawyer
2/19/2016 11:39:09 am
School segregation is somethings that has been going on for years and will always be a problem. The school system now of days has made it like this on purpose.Mr.ford has been a teacher for years and has made a great impact to help with segregation in schools. Its not as big of a problem to society as it should be because its not,the segregation that you read in the text.Its not all the whites here and all blacks there.Its more of a mix so it can go unrecognized. To those in the Title one schools notice the difference because they suffer with unfair treatments vs other schools that has great PTAs.The segregation in schools need change.
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Rakeem Harrell
2/19/2016 11:50:09 am
In the article, "What segregation looks like" by Mr. James Ford, he expresses his views and thoughts on segregation and provides examples from his personal life as a child. In my opinion, I believe that though signs of segregation may be around in the present day, we as somewhat decent human beings, are tearing down the walls of racism. Personally, as an African American male living in the US, I am seeing more and more walls being broken down by the Black community. Such walls include, Obama, who's the first African American president, and Guion S. Bluford, Jr, who is the first African American to go to the moon. Everyday, we as African Americans stand against segregation and racism.Not just Blacks though, every minority in America is making a stand against segregation and stereotypes. Every day, new dreams are dreamt and new achievements are achieved. So, though racism and segregation are still present, we as human beings are excelling.
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Achelie Exalus
2/19/2016 11:51:03 am
In the article “what school segregation looks like” Mr Ford shared what he has experienced when he was in elementary school. After reading the article I wasn’t shocked whatsoever. School segregation has occurred in the past and it is still occurring as of today. Garinger is a really good example for that. When you look around all the students are similar in terms of financial needs and skin color. They group all the students who have mostly low income or average income together and it shouldn’t be that way. A student with low income should be able to sit in the same classroom with a student with high income and a black student should also be able to sit in the same classroom with a white student. There should be some sort of balance going on in each school so those who require help could get help. How are we supposed to help each other if we’re all the same? For example if there’s a parent who can afford a specific thing that another student can’t afford, that parent will be able to help that student and that student will be able to move forward if that thing is required to get to the next level. On the other hand, if we all struggle with the same thing it’s never going to work. Success is more guaranteed when we work together, because when one or more people cooperate all their weaknesses and their strengths combine together to form what is called “power”. The kind of power that will make the world a better place not the kind that will leave out a few people and put a few on top. Because at the end of the day we are all humans, our skin colors and our backgrounds can’t change that.
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Terrence Thompson
2/19/2016 12:01:33 pm
In the article, "What school segregation looks like", by James Ford, the overall message or theme of the article is to not let your racial background determine who you will become. Mr. Ford himself proves this. He did not let the school he grew up in impact his future as he eventually becomes the teacher of the year in all of CMS. Racial segregation is a problem that still exists in society today, although it may not be as severe as it was in the past. People may be challenged in racial situations about what to do, but if you just do what Mr. Ford did and focus on what is really important, others can achieve greater heights than before.
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janigha young
2/19/2016 01:11:09 pm
i agree with Terrance because that was one of the morals of the story. Ford never gave up and he accomplished what those who oppose of him couldn't. That is what he wanted people of color to know. Do not let people discourage you from living your dream. Do not let them say you can not do this because you are not the color society want. Believe in yourself is what Ford wants everyone to know.
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Joseph Akpome
2/19/2016 01:46:17 pm
In the article, "What School Segregation looks like", by Mr. Ford, the key concept and overall message of the article was to inform his audience that they should not allow their racial background or where they are from to determine their destiny. Mr. Ford himself actually prove it. For example, he stated that living in "Rockford, Illinois, proved extremely hard for a child of color in the 1980s. My older sister and I endured a twisted route to school..... I, along with my sister and a handful of other black children from across the river, was bused there beginning in first grade.......We woke up early in the morning so our parents could take us to a child care center on the east side. We’d then board a bus from there to school. Most of my neighborhood friends continued to attend racially homogeneous schools." This is a key example, he did not allow the school he attended affect what he really wanted to become. He used his community as a motivation to help him accomplish his goals. Segregation still exists in our society today. Even thought racial segregation might not seems severe today as it was in the past. In the United States or other parts of the world, people are always challenged in what to do about racial segregation, but if we do what Mr. Ford did or even do more and focus on our goal, and use our community or environment as a motivation to achieve our goal, than we will be successful.
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Kevin Vasquez
2/20/2016 12:07:28 am
I agree that students should not let what others say about where they attend school and the area they live in affect them. If they let those things hurt them then nothing will ever change. People will continue to do poorly because of others judgement. That is why we should have more diversity in the schools so that no one is judged because of their school and area in which they live in
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Olrick Robinson
2/19/2016 09:15:40 pm
In the article, "What school segregation looks like", by Mr. James Ford, explains his views and thoughts on segregation and provides personal life experience from his childhood. An since I move to North Carolina I do truly believe our schools systems here are segregated by our community an income of your parents. In New York you can got to any schooling the city an live anywhere. But here you have to go to your zone school ion the east, north,south. And his is not fair because everyone does not have an equal opportunity as the other schools. like lunch, teaching, classrooms, school appliances environment. just how he had a better opportunity because he lived in a smaller town were he don't have to go to his zone school an have an choice.
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Kevin Vasquez
2/20/2016 12:01:34 am
I agree because students are not able to receive the same amount of education if schools do not have the same resources and materials. Also some teachers do not take their job seriously due to the school the work at. I believe their should be changes to the school systems way of zoning.
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Horacios Hernandez
2/19/2016 10:25:21 pm
In the article, “What Segregation Looks Like,” Mr. James Ford explains how segregation looks like in school. I agree with everything he says about how school are still segregated. I still believe that segregation still exists in schools. There are schools were its majority white in upper class neighborhoods. Zoning is the problem with this problem. Districts zone schools to where poor neighborhood are put with other poor neighborhood. Mr. Ford gives a personal experience on how he endured racial slurs from a all white school. This article helps me agree more to the fact that zoning should be changed. People of different races should interact to show that getting a lot of races together is good.
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Kevin Vasquez
2/19/2016 11:51:33 pm
In the article “What segregation looks like” James E. Ford describes how there is still segregation in the school system. Ford uses his personal life to describe how life was as a child and how he grew up. Ford also explains how he felt in those classes and and why. His experience through different thing gives people a chance to understand how life is for minorities. One example he uses is when he was called “n****r” by another classmate he gave details of his reactions and thoughts. Ford knew that Garinger showed how there was still segregation in the school systems. Ford also explained how he as a teacher would tell his students about how others saw them. This helped him connect with his students creating an impact. Ford helped students see that their future relies on how badly they want to succeed and that the only one holding students back is themselves.
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Xavier Wade
3/5/2016 01:55:20 pm
According to the article "What School Segregation Looks Like" North Carolina's teacher of the year James Ford, is stating his opinion on "the system" in the present day. He is stating that it is becoming more highly similar to how he grew up... In a newly integrated (still highly segregated) community. The relations he made from his past to this present educational experiences tie into each other because he believes "The System" is moving backwards... meaning the govt. is using socioeconomic's to standardize the re- segregation of schools.
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