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How are Schools Integrated?

 Today schools still have not earned the title of being integrated which may be surprising for some to know. Although it may seem like we have made a lot of progress from how things were back in the past, we've actually added more segregation and may not even realize it. In many school systems today, students are still being separated from other students based off of many reasons that are completely out of the student's control. We have schools that put students who may not know English in separate classes instead of having them with everyone else. We also have students who may have disabilities and are separated from the other students as well. When we separate these students from each other based off of things that may be out of their control, we're not making any progression but instead repeating the same cycle. We are taking away the opportunity of them learn together as a whole when we do this and we are showing them that because they may be different from others, they...