Local North Park Elementary School involved in segregation scandal by Adriana Lugo

Local North Park school, Jefferson Elemantary, has been recently involved in a segregation scandal. Kathy Taylor, a local parent toured Jefferson Elementary noticed that most of the Jefferson students were poor and many were still learning English. Families that live just blocks from the school decide to send their children elsewhere. Taylor, also a local parent, ended up sending her child to private school. “I wanted this feeling of community. But what we have is not a community,” she said. “Everybody is sending their kids to other places.”
This problem can defined by race, dozens of white families who live blocks from the school do not send their kids there, often choosing schools just a mile or two away with higher test scores. Dozens of Latino families who live elsewhere do, saying they love this school. The kids who actually come to Jefferson are mostly Latino and African-American in some cases these children are poor. What most parents don't realize is that while choosing other schools over Jefferson because of race, the parents are segregating themselves and their children. The purpose of the public school system is to let all races and ethnicities have equal education. Apparently parents have forgotten this purpose and have decided to segregate their children in order for them to have a better education. Jefferson Elementary offers great education but parents don't see through the race difference.