This article discusses how the U.S. upper class creates ways to build their association as such. There are ways they take to ensure their status for their family members, including new spouses are registered with the Social Register. They make great strides to separate themselves from other social classes. They enroll their children in prep schools, ivy league colleges, and country clubs. These institutions are very exclusive and are discriminatory. This ensures the rich only socialize with the rich.
Growing up in Stockton, St. Mary’s High School was considered one of those institutions that separated the poor from the rich. A person only with financial means could afford to send their children to that high school. The school predominantly had Caucasian students with some Asian students. I have always attended public schools and had all of our children in them as well. Public schools in Stockton as I grew up, would transport students from across town to provide a diversity of race, social, and economic backgrounds(https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/15/archives/desegregation-starts-smoothly-for-schools-in-stockton-calif.html). Stockton Unified School District stopped busing children outside of their immediate community which restricts children being exposed to children from other economic statuses. It is a disservice to not only children in lower socioeconomic status but to children of middle to the upper middle class as well.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.-Maya Angelou. A great example is when Prince Harry married his American wife, Meghan. We can only hope others will follow suit.
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