A school district in Indiana has decided that white students will not be allowed to go on school field trips to local colleges and that only their African American students will be allowed to go.
The schools claims that they want to encourage black kids to go to college, but apparently don’t much care if the white children get interested in higher education.
Public school officials in South Bend, Ind. are segregating elementary schools students by race and ferrying black students — and only black students — on visits to local colleges.
The students facing racial segregation in America in the year 2015 are third graders at seven elementary schools, reports local ABC affiliate WBND.
School district officials say they do not intend for the taxpayer-funded reenactment of Jim Crow-era race racial segregation to be discriminatory. Instead, they say, the intent is to inform black students about college because low numbers of black students attend college.
“I want these third graders to have the opportunity to think of themselves as college students,” G. David Moss, director of African-American student and parent services, told WBND.
The return of Jim Crow?