Affirmative Action Is Not Necessary - 1511 Words

The purpose of affirmative action is to allow equal access to employment to create a workforce that reflects the demographics of a qualified workforce in the relevant job market for all minorities, people with disabilities and women (Human Resources). It wasn’t until President Nixon who proposed the Philadelphia Plan that imposed racial hiring quotas on the city’s construction industry, affirmative action then became an issue of race causing the cases of reverse racism to rise ( Kahlenberg 2 ). Though as a country most of the citizens would like to believe that affirmative action is not needed because of great advancements made considering the election of the first black president. Affirmative action is still needed in the United States in†¦show more content†¦An example of this educational gap was in the New York schooling system. Where blacks and Hispanics â€Å"make up about 71 percent of public and charter school students citywide, they received just 12 pe rcent of specialized high school students in 2003 ( Leonie, Ravitch 2). One of the causes this of disparity is the difference in schools. According pew research there is a difference between schools in the suburban which are made up of mostly white children and inner city schools made up of mostly minorities like Hispanics and African Americans. The suburban schools which according to pew research center is mostly white and the inner city schools which are mostly made up of the other minorities (Citation 3). Staring with the quality of teachers, according to Pitre â€Å"unqualified teachers are disproportionately assigned to teach low-income ethnic minority children† (Pitre 5). An example of this difference is in the state of California where it was found that in the most segregated schools there â€Å"were more than five times as likely to have an uncertified teacher† (Pitre 5).The importance of teachers in the schools, especially teachers who teach young children is invaluable. According to Cowan Pitre â€Å"the issue of access to a high quality teacher is important because research has consistently identified teacher quality as the most important school-based factor in student achievement† ( 5). When low quality teachers are assigned to minorities how