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May. 17th, 2004 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheI benefited supremely from Brown v. Board of Education. My parents did, too (being as they were only 4 when the decision was handed down).
In my home township, I learned as I was growing up, the school district was split up into six different districts. I ended up less than a mile away from the Lincoln school district (which today is majority black) but was bussed 45 minutes out of my way to the Airport school district, which is majority white. I can only speculate how my life would have ended up if the district lines had been drawn just a bit differently.
Though my sister and brother also attended Airport, I was the only one of my family to attend college. I know we have family in the South who've graduated from college, so I'm not the first in that respect. But without the education I got at Airport, I don't think I would have been put on the college track. And I honestly think the quality of the education at Lincoln or Belleville falls short of what's offered in Carleton, Michigan.
So thank God for politics. Brown v. Board had a direct effect on my life even before I was born, and I can't adequately express my appreciation.
In my home township, I learned as I was growing up, the school district was split up into six different districts. I ended up less than a mile away from the Lincoln school district (which today is majority black) but was bussed 45 minutes out of my way to the Airport school district, which is majority white. I can only speculate how my life would have ended up if the district lines had been drawn just a bit differently.
Though my sister and brother also attended Airport, I was the only one of my family to attend college. I know we have family in the South who've graduated from college, so I'm not the first in that respect. But without the education I got at Airport, I don't think I would have been put on the college track. And I honestly think the quality of the education at Lincoln or Belleville falls short of what's offered in Carleton, Michigan.
So thank God for politics. Brown v. Board had a direct effect on my life even before I was born, and I can't adequately express my appreciation.