It appears that segregation has returned to the classroom and there is nothing that people can do about it.

Recently a district judge in Little Rock, Arkansas had ruled the district supervision end for Central High School and that the city plans to keep segregation going on.

This is a disgrace to not only the public school system but to the nation as a whole. How dare a city in Arkansas support segregation in addition to an unknown high school in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington.

The landmark 1954 ruling of Brown v. the Board of Education ended segregation and paved the way toward integration in public schools.

But with this recent development it is sad to say that segregation still exists on this planet.

I, however, disagree with the idea that there is nothing that can be done; there is.

It is called educating ourselves.

What I don’t understand is why teachers from a high school would allow segregation to happen.

Aren’t people who have had a career in education supposed to be leaders? So, my question is why would teachers from an Arkansas high school support this?

These are the teachers that students depend on.

There must be a stop to supporting segregation. This is not just a black and white issue anymore.

According to Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation, in 1991, 39 percent of black students in Southern states attended schools that the majority was white; in 2003, only 29 percent did.

In Arkansas, home to the historic integration effort, the percentage of white students in schools attended by black students decreased by eight points from 1991 to 2003.

In Kentucky, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and Oklahoma, 69 percent of black students attended majority non-white schools in 2003; in 1991, only 59 percent did.

The numbers don’t indicate the fact that there is still anger over the 1954 court ruling that ended segregation. Society as a whole needs to wake up.

Let me put it this way: imagine that segregation existed at Cerritos; imagine that a court just called integration among everyone unjustified. What would you do if a community college such as this had its court uphold a ruling to allow only one race to be admitted into the college?

How would you react if you were looking into a college that had only white students or either of the other races allowed?

These are questions you have probably asked yourself but don’t have an answer to. What sets me off is the fact that education is not enforced to have an understanding as to why segregation was and is wrong in the first place.

College students need to start reading again. The majority of the more than 20,000 students on this campus don’t read and that leads to asking why you didn’t pass your classes.

Ask yourself if you would tolerate being in a room with the people of the same race. I don’t think so. Diversity is what makes a campus unique and it should stay that way.

If it doesn’t then we as a human population should not exist at all.