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Attacks
Inequity
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battle against educational J3f It ml
inequality must be stepped St II y m 1 |
up at the ground level," |||j- / f III
?-writes KMhettae Clay, 20, / 1 II
of Midlothian, Virginia, in 7^'*"" / f? '
the v Sugust issue of fbg- /if I II-"
Seventeen Magazine. J jBy m'-mm?''
"I was in the fourth ||<-\ / || I II ^
grade when I attended my / I
first integrated school," T U I S
writes Katherine, "and I \'|IS^3
wasn't prepared for the Sgf II |
culture shock. For the first /*
time in my life, I realized ft-ii
that I was a minority, and . * jMMM 1
that my writing and math lw 1
skills didn't measure up to Jff J
those of the , white ;
Katherine credits the Ifer ~ 'Jm
love; respect, and all
around support of her par-'
ents for helping her to
overcome the hurdles of her 18?^
new environment, but goes %^^2i!bs2iP^
on to say that jmany of her ||jg /
fellow minority students do % I
not have this * advantage Ip I /
and so are not able to adjust ;) r; / /
quickly enough. * Conse- ]8S J //
quently, separate stan- S l j/i
dards for black and white t?!| / / j
students have developed. f? / \l i/\
hi- many cases, grading Sfe / JJ . ..
scales are altered in favor ||p I T '
of minorities. meS " %jMA.%Ar
In junior high, when f|j[ j ^ _
Katherine received a num- 9t0& /\ "M
ber of academic awards, tjj ^ All
she realized, "Many white
students were actually
more deserving of the ' f Sears price
awards ihairfr-As a result, ^ Limited Quantities
I had mixed feelings of
? pride and guilt, and I felt ? Our collection is c
* bad when^ 1 faced resent* S.e$jt to believe it!
k" ment from some of the ^ one
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Katherine believes that ? . ,
.. . . . Ask about !
minonty students are given >
the opportunity for a good | T~
education too late in their lives.
"Educational equality
should begin in kinder i
garten of the first grade \ \
becausc this is when a child J[ M \ /|fl '
starts to develolp self- ft* I ? \
confidence and a sense of r*. I Ml
herself as a student," she . P J, ^|k
writes. "If we provide good f '
education for all children in : 1the
first place, the scales jjt; , ^ ^
won't have to be tipped in
favor of minorities at a later
The daughter of Mary mjm ;;xHBg|
Clay Thomas and Add
Thomas, Jr., Katherine is a 1
junior majoring in English ' jl
at Wake Forest University
ini Winston-Salem. She ^
has won the 1979 Academy
of American Poet's^ Prize
for WFU as well as several ^?1 ^J"
awards in various debate f#-|
and forensic tournaments. B
A staff member of her college
newspaper, ; ^
Katherine hopes someday
to be a journalist or to work
in the publishing field, and -r\
eventually to write a novel. ^
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