Affirmative Action out the Window for Colleges: What will this mean for Children coming from Urban Education where disparities have already long existed?
As an urban educator, I still do not think that there has been enough conversations happening when it comes to the Supreme Courts decision to ban affirmative action in colleges. I'm sure there are parents who may not see this as a threat, especially if their child or children is still in grade school, but please believe me when I say that this decision is very detrimental to urban youth. In this blog today, I will be speaking on the disparities happening in urban education today, and how this decision from the Supreme Court has just made it worse. As an educator, it has been very clear to me that urban education has been failing Black and Hispanic students for a very long time, but throughout my years teaching, I have come to the conclusion that there is more than one reason as to why. There are numerous reasons just to name a few: lack of qualified teachers, lack of parent support, poverty, lack of resources/ funding (etc). This is not just the schools administration fault. This