6-1 Discussion - Supporting a Thesis Statement PDF

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“In the long run, busing helped Boston because it desegregated the school system, provided an equal educational opportunity for minority students, and set the stage for racial healing and an improved racial climate in the twenty-first century.” I can understand the argument for both thesis statements. However, I decided to pick the first thesis statement. African-American schools lacked funding and resources to provide students with better education so, busing would have been an option. Tensions were high, and there were many African Americans against busing as well. The dropout rates increased, and testing scores dropped, and neighborhood populations decreased.

When Boston introduced Stanford 9 testing to the public schools in 1996, 94 percent of seventhgraders at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School scored "poor" or "failing" in math, as did 73 percent of fifth-graders at Brighton's Alexander Hamilton School. At Dorchester's William E. Endicott School, 95 percent of the fifth-graders scored "poor" or "failing" in reading, and 100 percent scored "poor" or "failing" in math. Yet, students were promoted to the next grade. How was this a quality education?...