Everyone is entitled to equal public education. Regardless of the family income or social status of the family the children from one area have the right to be educated just as well as any child from another. Then is there a reason that many schools are run down, having outdated equipment, inadequate resources and only a forty-five percent graduation quota. Across town the schools are perfectly modern and perfectly maintained with almost all of the student body graduating. The rundown schools exist in the rundown neighborhoods and the good schools exist in the rich or well-off neighborhoods. There is segregation of social class within the public school system. Not all children are getting the education that they deserve and some are being denied the ability to go to a school in a certain part of town depending on their social background. This is not morally right nor is it fair. There should be no segregation in the public school system regardless of the jurisdiction, race, or social status of an individual.
             With the Supreme Court ruling in the pivotal case, Brown vs. The Board of Education the policy of separate but equal has been totally cast out. It is now illegal and punishable by a cut of funding from the state legislator to discriminate against any student's attendance based on issues of race. It is not legal, however, to turn a student away from a school because where they live does not fall within the district, even when the district school that they would be forced to go to is inadequate and under-funded. It's not supposed to be an issue of race but rather an issue of money. A boy form one such school in East Saint Louis says, "the two things race and money, go so close together-what's the difference? I live here they live there and they don't want me in their school." This boy's name is Luther, in Luther's school the number of white students can be counted on two hands, yet when asked if r
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