At the school where you teach, you notice that most of the African-American students seem to be in the remedial and vocational classes, whereas the honors and gifted classes seem to be overwhelmingly white. You notice that this demographic pattern even holds for the PE classes, where some classes are almost all white, while others seem to be almost all black. What you are witnessing at your school is an example of:

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Phillip Nixon

28 September, 10:07

At the school where you teach, you notice that most of the African-American students seem to be in the remedial and vocational classes, whereas the honors and gifted classes seem to be overwhelmingly white. You notice that this demographic pattern even holds for the PE classes, where some classes are almost all white, while others seem to be almost all black. What you are witnessing at your school is an example of:

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Javier Clark · Answer 1

de facto segregation

Explanation:

Clearly, the word segregation leaves no doubt as to its more general meaning, when we search the dictionary for the word segregation means separation; division in order to avoid contact; isolation. In the case shown in the question above we can see that there is a case of de facto segregation, since African American children have been separated from white-skinned children in order to avoid contact between these two "races" of children.