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Regardless if it works, I am not for segregation. What I look for in schools is students of different cultures and races. Just because it is said in test results that students of different races besides students that are white test poorly does not mean that students of different races have to be parted from their white peers. Desegregation can cause many horrible things. Fights, death, heartbreak, people live in fear. Suicide is a problem because other student and people teasing family's and students to the point they feel that they do not belong so they decide it is time to end it. The other thing is schools need to be better organized. For example my best friend who a few years past away went through many moves with her sister who was her guardian at the time. She tried very hard to graduate high school but got her GED because the schools she went to gave her a hard time about her school records. Finally, after going to school after school her records were missing and credits gone and senior projects kept changing on her. I tried to help her out but it was useless because the schools did not want to work out anything with her and she was a different race, other then white. I did not give up on her, I helped her through hard times even housed her and shared clothes. I helped her study for her GED. She got her GED and years later got a job in a nursing home. She was happy she got married then tragically died unexpectedly months later followed by her husband, who went through issues in schools as well. He was not rich he couldn't afford much and struggled and lacked interest in school until before he was married. Because he could not afford much and was white he was treated differently and struggled through life debating on if he should live or not. There parents are scared for life now and there family's. They spend day after day what they could of done to help them more. Even I, being so close to them feel upset at times because they could of lived a better life. I always helped them and there family, I was around so much I was considered family. In school I have had problems as well my grades where not the best and failed state testing. I have a disability and I was yelled at by teachers and they did not know how to handle me and I found myself crying a lot, I did not understand why I had to be yelled at or why I had to do certain things. Though I did not realize it but I was picked apart by staff and my peers. Later on I was depressed and struggled more. After years and years and teacher after teacher I finely found that teacher that understood me and how to teach me. I finally felt a part of myself I never felt before. I felt respected and I felt that I could do things I just learned differently then others and had a different view on things. At the end of my senior year of high school I felt confident in myself and because of this teacher and the wonderful high school I went to my last two years of high school I finely felt like I could live my life and not care about people' s harsh sayings about me. I also think that schools should also have more founding so students get a full learning experience. If students have what they need in class, they will learn more and stay interested and learn more. Tests will be better and numbers would change. It's not about race, it is about our school systems.     

      


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