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Well, my thoughts on the matter are a bit realistic, whereas Mr Roberts is somewhat naive on the true voids of our society.
My generation (I'm 33), was one of the first to be wholly intergrated in our educational system. We students were mostly put together using the illustrious science of geography. A school serves a community, that is, a geographic locale.
The divide in the educational system doesn't stem from any race based beliefs, for the majority of the people, it stems purely from a socio-economic source.
The poor and down-trodden simply cannot afford to live near the affluent. This is the major disparity here. I know that they'll always be racism in some form, but this isn't necessarily the case with all forms of seperation. I choose to live in a neighborhood of my peers. Most do.
Saying that, it's very unlikely that we will ever achieve the dream of equality in education until it's equally available to everyone. By that I mean online education. I think in the future we will go to an online source. As the technology grows and cheapens and the cost of education rises, someone will realize that we can hire the very best to teach the masses for a minute fraction of the cost.
Twenty years from now, schools will exist only in cyberspace. Teachers will be abundant and hopefully, in competition with each other for our educational dollar. I believe that this will acheive equality in exposure, as well as an evened playing field.
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