John Oliver Takes On School Segregation

[ErikJ972]

NYC has some of the most segregated schools in the country.

John Oliver Explains Why School Segregation Is Still a Huge Problem—and Especially in the North

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/10/31/john_oliver_examines_schools_racial_segregation_on_last_week_tonight_video.html

[Petralicious]

Racist Republican Politics

[South Florida]

Great segment.

[Call_me_jorge]

This segment is really hitting close to home, since my school district has two schools. One that is extremely diverse and one that is not. There is overcrowding at the more segregated school and at the last board meeting they devised a plan saying they will just push the boarder between the school to allow more people at the more diverse school. There were thousands of parents who showed show there disapproval of the plan and someone even showed up in a KKK mask to protest the parents of the segregated school. 

They don't kno how to stop the overcrowding at the one school without pudding off the students parents.

[Mister Matt]

Um...on the subject of education...you may want to proofread your post, jorge.  

[Call_me_jorge]

Too be fair, I was writing it during a passing period, on my phone.

[ErikJ972]

How did the district respond to people showing up at a meeting in KKK hoods?

[South Florida]

It breaks my heart that we are so blind to this.  With the advent of technology it seems we're leaving the most vulnerable of us behind.  Things are worse than ever before and it's shocking.

[Mister Matt]

"Worse than ever before"?  Really?!?!

[ErikJ972]

Mister Matt said: ""Worse than ever before"?  Really?!?!"

Well...in some ways he's not all wrong. In areas of the country, school segregation today is worse than it was during the Jim Crow days. Especially in the Northeast.

[Petralicious]

Whatever happen to Hope and Change?