Passage: “I think that children can overcome the stigma of poverty… But, what they cannot overcome is the stigma of separation. That is like a damned spot on their being… a spot that, no matter what success you have, you can’t wipe it out. And that’s what segregation does to children; they see themselves as apart and separate because of the language they speak, because of the color of their skin.” (Eaton 124)
Part 1: Minority children attending Hartford schools can overcome the stigma of poverty… But, what they cannot overcome is the stigma of separation.
Part 2: No matter the success Hartford schoolchildren may have, they will never be able to overcome the stigma of separation.
Part 3: Although Hartford schoolchildren are able to get over the stigma of poverty.. they cannot get over the stigma of separation (Eaton 124).
Part 4: Gladys Hernandez, a veteran schoolteacher, argues that the powerful and degrading effects of racial separation stay with a child forever (Eaton 124).
Part 5: Gladys Hernandez, veteran schoolteacher, believes in school desegregation because racial isolation causes students to “see themselves as apart and separate because of the language they speak, because of the color of their skin” (Eaton 124).
Work Cited:
Eaton, Susan E.. The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. Print.