During the Asian American Movement

          During the Asian American movement in 1884, Asian Americans were discriminated and segregated because of an attack on
Pearl Harbor. Most Asian Americans had lived in
California; the Asian children whom tried to get into a public "white" school they had been denied access because of their ancestry. The
San Francisco school system had despised the idea of Asian American children in a class of white students, so they had created separated schools. Besides that, the schools that were provided had fewer books and supplies, thus creating a poor learning environment. An example of this would be the case of Tape vs. Hurley. A Chinese American girl of eight years old, Mamie Tape, was denied the right to attend a local "all-white" school. The School Board of San Francisco passed a law stating any principal who accepted Asian students would be fired immediately. Therefore, Mamie Tape's parents had taken their case to the Supreme Court. The judge ruled that anyone living in the
United States, including Asian Americans, is permitted to attend a public school. Everyone has a right to and education under the U.S Constitution. The officials of the San Francisco Board of Education had hastily lobbied against the Legislature to pass a provision and create the schools segregating Asian Americans from the whites.

Present Tense-2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_v._Hurley

                                                                                                                                                                      Mamie Tape & Family: Mamie Tape and her family, their fight for equal education.      

 Today, many public schools cannot afford to teach appropriate education in this city because they have not been financed properly by the Board of Education. During the time period of 1997-1998,
New York's Board of Education had spent practically $8,000 on the education of a third-grade student in a
New York City public school annually. Yet, if you were to pick up that same one third-grader and place that one in a typical white suburban neighborhood of
New York, the worth in education will sum up to $12,000. If you were to lift this child once more, then place her in one of the wealthiest suburban neighborhood, that third-grader would receive and amount of $18,000 in education! These days of course have changed and the funding of public schools has been raised to about the sum of about $22,000, but we're still behind suburbs such as Manhasset. This is not fair because, most public schools in these suburbs have things that a public school in the city doesn't. This is showing socioeconomic discrimination by class. It's just telling us that we are in a way still being segregated against by our class as well. If we are all created equal, then why shouldn't are education be?