ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses forms of discrimination as 'racism' and follows through with regard to three major issues: economic racism and the funding of the public schools, the so-called 'school to prison pipeline' and the reactionary decision-making around curricula. All facets of discriminatory decision-making that influence what the public schools bring to the children all over the country. The practice of racism in the United States is about discrimination against someone, acts that are falsely predicated upon physical differences among people. Broadly speaking, one can distinguish between 'individual' racism and 'institutional' racism. That racism in the economic domain feeds the racism in the educational domain. Access to education for the children is predicated upon the income a family earns and where that family lives. In light of the disturbing statistics that have been gathered, one could complain that schools are providing, for 'minority children', a direct path to the courts and incarceration.
