70 Years After Brown v. Board, Revisit ‘Separate and Unequal’ (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

"You can never stop that fight…" aka You can never stop asking for more handouts.

So much racism in these comments

What did Malcolm say about devils?😊

Smaller schools seem more focused and more beneficial for the students. The greedy teachers unions are the only ones against the idea. The teachers unions have to be disbanded.

Louisiana is a trash state

The existence of suburbs in every major American city is proof you can't FORCE people to integrate. Frontline seems very surprised by this obvious fact.

She says we can do wonderful things together, ok, how long should we wait? 100 years?

Why is it our responsibility to prop up the black community indefinitely? They have to stand on their own at some point.

There needs to be a better TIERED school system. Gifted Schools for the academically gifted, trade schools for the techically gifted, schools for those in the middle.

They need to do better on everything

How about a group of people who just want the best for their children. Regardless of the decline of the African American nuclear family.

LOL. Black folk wanted they own city and they got it. y so mad?

Brown is the board and the board is brown.

@12:27 – One of the problems with our society is that, in poorer schools, the principal wouldn't have said, "Boy, do you want me to call your daddy?". He would have said, "the police are on their way". One mistake is all it takes, and the age at which one small mistake can ruin your life gets younger with each passing year. People in more affluent schools, however, often get a LOT more chances to shape up.

That said, I think the bigger issue here is that the schools don't need to be segregated by race. There are good and bad black kids and good and bad white kids. What they need is to separate by BEHAVIOR. If you start fights, you get sent to a different school. If you have stellar behavior, you get upgraded to a better school the following year. Rewards for those who earn it, and an incentive to want to learn. Also, more focus on behavioral issues for those who have self-control issues. Don't impede the learning of everyone else (black or white) because someone wants to live the "thug life" (again, whether black or white).

Also, limit the teacher-to-student ratio (not including admin, as they aren't the actual teachers). No classroom should have more than 12-15 students per teacher, most especially with behavior challenges. How is a teacher supposed to teach more than a dozen children at once when there are behavioral issues at play? Sure, in a well-behaved class, you could probably go up to 20 students per teacher, but, in exchange, those kids should get more field trips to offset the fact that there are more students per teacher. A class made up of the best behaved children could do that, and it'd give even more incentive to children to behave and earn their way into the class. The downside is that such a class would exclude many children with mental illness, and that's sad for those kids, but if the mentally-ill children struggle to behave in class taking them on field trips (where a meltdown is even MORE likely) seems wildly irresponsible. Instead, those mentally-ill children need the benefit of in-school therapy sessions with licensed professionals, with an emphasis on teaching them to develop the self-control needed for normal, productive, adult life.

The reason this is not how they separate the schools is because the white kids, in my experience, like the cause trouble just as much if not more than the black ones. In such a system a child of someone who makes half a million a year might end up in a school with poor kids because they are entitled and can't behave. Conversely a child from the "hood" might get a place at the best school over some rich person's white kid who isn't as smart (or trying as hard). Those who are affluent tend to want their property taxes to ONLY benefit their kids, not those who are poorer. This is why I think schools should get funded based on the number of students served. Why should a school in one area get $3,000 per student while a school in another area gets $10,000 per student? That's discrimination, plain and simple. Additionally, property taxes are exploitative and often unjustly drive seniors out of their homes when they can't keep up with the taxes on the minuscule Social Security payments (especially after they price-gouged to death by the cost of their medications).

Aye look imma say this: Black people and their school aged children need our own educational system that is created by us and for us so that we can be more enlightened as a people. Is so evident that the white parents in this documentary WANT THEIR OWN SCHOOLS and EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM. Let them have what they want! I just wish that more of my people would fully invest in education and hire some top African Scholars in addition to other world renowned scholars to work along side the many dedicated and highly educated black teachers in the inner city schools. Theres plenty of money and resources to go into this massive educational mission and its lots of qualified individuals too. We have to stop being so dependent on the white race for stuff and having to run to them for their dollars and help smh.

A man who don’t want to take care of his child is a “deadbeat” – a woman “pro choice”

the left ideology (also embraced at PBS) is leading the segregation

I’ve listened to enough of this program to come to this conclusion and it is this. If you are the public school system and you want your children to be successful then you need to teach them business. You need to teach them taxes and you need to teach them Investing. You also need to teach them how not to get in debt. You need to teach them how to use debt to fuel there Aspirations in terms of business so that debt is used correctly.
When these students that these administrators are training, get out into the work and they take their places and I’m getting ready to retire. What are these students going to be capable of doing?
Based on what I’ve seen young people do since I am now in the midst of my career time, I see them complaining I see them talking about getting high all the time and I see them not being very motivated to go anywhere because they’ve been programmed to be poor by the school system.

This has been my experience in Illinois and it hasn’t gotten any better since the 1990s when I went to school and so I asked one simple question to the administrators who were interviewed in this program and that is this .
Are you guys ever going to change and are you willing to take the time to train successful people to be business people or are you going to continue to train workers for work and jobs that no longer exist?
This is not the 1900s where is the rage yet? You guys continue to teach students that a dirt floor is the greatest thing in the world and yet we have people graduating high school school who can’t even read or calculate which means they can’t use basic skills to start a business nor can they Achieve levels of success that are beyond imagination and the question remains. Are you guys going to change the way you teach so that students of the next generation can be highly successful and donate to their school system that is what successful schools do and that is what successful school systems do, which means that the idea that segregation is getting in the way Could be true and possibly is true however if you want the school system to be supported by the students, then you have to create successful people and that’s not one student and every thousand that’s 950 students in every thousand who are highly successful entrepreneurs business owners Wall Street Titans who can donate $1 million to your school district who can participate in philanthropy because they’ve been properly trained about how money works

To anyone who read this comment, I commend you forgetting this far. I just hope that if you are a parent and you have the opportunity to train your children, I would hope that you train them how to utilize money and how to make their money work for them so they’re not spending their entire lives working as employees for someone who in the end Very likely won’t really care about their future
I’ve worked for a few people like that where they only care about the wealth that they have or I should say the riches of this world that they have and they don’t really care about the people who they hurt and so they will come and they will lay people off, just like that without any warning and so if those people don’t have any savings or if they’re out of work too long, they end up using unemployment as a crutch

I bet their sports programs become very integrated

Talk about taking your ball and going home. Instead of staying and trying to fix their local school district and ensure the right people are making decisions (local school board elections tend to be decided by tens or hundreds of votes) they'd rather pull the rug out from everyone else who cant afford to go elsewhere.

And to the folks who ask why their tax dollars should go to other people's kids, because we live in a society and have a collective responsibility to ensure we all thrive, part of which includes ensuring the general population has adequate educational opportunities. If you think otherwise then stop using tax funded roads, utilities, infrastructure, etc. and figure it out on your own in some back wood.

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An angry old white guy in the south saying it has nothing to do with race is patently obsured

White people are trying to roll back civil rights. Racism is alive and well.

Can we be honest here? Would the 'well to do' tax payers be separating from baton rouge if the general population of my demographic promoted schooling? If crime wasnt so damn bad? if school wasn't so dangerous for kids? teachers in these 'urban' areas are at their wits end! these kids are fighting their teachers, being disruptive and aren't interested in a decent education. They always make it seem like this is how inner city schools are. calm, respectful kids just begging for a proper education…..the truth is, these kids and their parents don't care. This is victim propaganda. It sucks that the kids that DO want to learn are overshadowed by the degeneracy but they're the minority in that category and I know that as a black woman. This honestly has less to do with skin tone specifically and more about morals and values. They want to create a community of like minded individuals who prioritize a positive future for their kids. They want a proactive police force. Successful small businesses and less violence all around.

"We have a black president" says the guy that definitely didn't vote for the black president.