A segregated education, K-12
Students offer reflections on 13 years of segregated schooling
June 27, 2012
Linda Lutton
(WBEZ/Bill Healy)
Jakeeda Bester
There’s no legal school segregation in this country.
But in Chicago and the suburbs, a quarter of a million black and Latino children still face extreme racial isolation every day in class.
They go to schools where more than 90 percent of students come from their same race.
WBEZ has found that in the last 20 years, the number of extremely segregated black and Latino schools has gone up in our region.
For our ongoing series Race: Out Loud, we talked with seniors who just graduated from some of these schools.
DERRELL: Most of the schools I’ve been through, throughout my life, are segregated.
They go to schools where more than 90 percent of students come from their same race.
WBEZ has found that in the last 20 years, the number of extremely segregated black and Latino schools has gone up in our region.
For our ongoing series Race: Out Loud, we talked with seniors who just graduated from some of these schools.
DERRELL: Most of the schools I’ve been through, throughout my life, are segregated.
TAPE COLLAGE: An all-black school, all-black elementary and high school, all black. None of it was mixed. All black. It was all black. Totally black, just totally black. Grammar school all the way up