Brittany Paulk 004 Journal #2 No Integration? What exactly do you do when you have a group of inter-city kids who are said to be unreachable and incapable of learning? Do you turn your back on them, or attempt to open a door for success. At Woodrow Wilson High School their answer to the question was to turn their backs, and put no effort into helping the less fortunate children of the inter-city. They are shunned from the school, given raggedy textbooks, and are considered to be a waste of space in the halls of Woodrow Wilson High School. Their considered outsiders and their welcome never even existed for it to be worn out. Once Woodrow Wilson High School became integrated and was no longer all white is the point when things seem to break loose. Some students may have had an issue with this integration but the main people who were disgusted by the thought of integration were the Head of the English Department Mrs. Campbell and the Honors English teacher Mr. Gelford.Neither one of them felt as if the inter-city children deserved to receive an education, and they were incapable of learning at a High School level. Mrs. Campbell did everything in her power to prevent the inter-city children from receiving a proper education. She placed them in classrooms that were much smaller, graffiti on the desk and walls, with very little decoration in the room. The students were given poor textbooks, and the readings they were given were elementary books that looked like they just barely made it through World War 2.She looked down on the students simply because of the color of their skin. She figured just because they were Hispanic, or Asian, or Black, they were incapable of learning properly. The students already felt as if school was the last place they should be, and by her treating them the way she did was only proving to them day by day how right they were. Mr. Gelford, the Honors English teacher, is completely astounded and against the integration of Woodrow High...