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

            Schools in present times seem to have become fully integrated, but that's not what it truly is. If you take a closer look at different communities and their schools, it would be clear that children are still being discriminated and segregated, but not by race, by class. The socioeconomic status of one's school can take a toll on a student's education and on how much money is spent on said school. If you were to take a look at
New York City's public schools and a typical "white" suburban school, a comparison can be clearly made. The class of each student depends on where they had come from and how much is being invested for that student's education. A typical public school can have as much as a typical suburban school if the funding were fair and not based on classification of each other.

Connection between the Asian Struggle and Today’s Public Schools 

            The Asian Americans education suffered because of racial discrimination. Today, inner-city students in disadvantaged communities have schools that are financed at a lower level than that of suburban areas. Thus, this is discrimination by class instead of race since they have no choice of attending a school that is not in their/and or surrounding neighborhoods.