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Deidre Konold Third Place Taught by Anthony Andrea Roseville Area Middle School Human Rights I feel that the Supreme Court's ruling put an end to most segregation, but not all of it. Statutes were put in place to make public segregation illegal, but that did not stop people from participating in private segregation. It is illegal for a school or a restaurant to be segregated but private segregation is still practiced there. For example, if you walk into the cafeteria at a middle school or at a high school, there will be tables with students of many different races, but there will also be a few tables with just one ethnicity of students sitting there, whether it is African, Asian, American or any other race. This may be because one group of studentsjust feels more secure or at home sitting with the same race, but it could also be because a different race has not allowed the other race to sit with them or near them. It could also just be an unwritten rule that at that school, the students sit with students of the like race. Some of the extra- curricular clubs at a school may also be segregated. In particular, the Asian Pride and African Pride clubs at some schools, but that is usually understandable. These groups are usually formed because these kids have been forbidden to join other clubs because of their race or because they feel that they need support from others that they can closely relate too, in this case being others of the same race. There is also a sense of an unwritten rule about race in some neighborhoods. For instance, in some cities or richer suburbs it is to be known that they are white neighborhoods and that a person of another race shouldn't bother trying to buy a house