Right to Education

By: Hameka Canady

This semester, I focused on discrimination in the school systems of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. According to article one of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, every child has the right to education and equal treatment in school. For the past couple of months, I have worked closely with Professor Patricia Parker and her students from her program Still Lifting, Still Climbing. During this time, I became educated about various discriminatory scenarios in the students’ schools in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. For this reason, I conducted a focus group with the students in Sociology 290 to gain more information about the experiences with discrimination in their personal school systems. Largely, every student in the class was either affected or was aware of inequality of students. In the future, it is imperative that the public become informed about this problem in order to change as well as ensure that every student in Chapel Hill/Carrboro receives an equal education.