Letters to the Editor: School choice shouldn’t undo the progress Americans have made
To the editor: As a white child who attended second and third grades in segregated public colleges of Topeka, Kan., from 1952 to 1954, I applaud LZ Granderson’s insightful column.
My Arkansas-born mother and father by no means talked about my unwitting connection to the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court docket case of Brown vs. Board of Schooling of Topeka. Unsurprisingly, my household’s transfer to Lincoln, Neb., left me enrolled in all-white colleges for the following three years.
Granderson posits a singularly highly effective take: “College alternative was all the time a Malicious program, a rebuke of the Brown resolution. It was a system designed to make use of taxpayer {dollars} to fund ‘separate however unequal’ education within the title of God.”
To which I have to say “Amen!”
M. Edward Alston, Santa Monica
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To the editor: I taught within the L.A. Unified College District for 28 years. If an built-in college is failing, why attribute a mother or father’s resolution to drag a baby out to racism? But that’s precisely what LZ Granderson does.
Mother and father of all races have the best to pursue a high quality schooling for his or her kids. Let’s cease assuming that racism is the No. 1 purpose.
Walt Gardner, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I see that racial discrimination, prejudice and segregation are alive and effectively in lots of states of america. I’m actually starting to surprise in regards to the “united” a part of the title of our nation. Built-in colleges are the spine and lifeblood of a democracy, and a nation of freedom and equal alternative. I attended built-in colleges rising up in Southern California — it’s what makes America nice! Black, brown and white individuals certified for faculties and universities out of our highschool — from state faculties to Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard — on their very own deserves.
Segregation, I consider, is a throwback to monarchy, privilege and a category society — the very formulation that decimated European society within the 18th and nineteenth centuries.
A values schooling and ethical schooling could be the one antidote for human shortcomings and lack of knowledge. It’s the stuff of a classical, worldly schooling. Many individuals on the planet, I consider, together with our nation, don’t have any clue.
Chet Chebegia, San Marcos
