Our country prohibits the maltreatment of children
It is something that is not tolerated
But how is it that everything else that creates a barrier in a child's life
Tolerated
Why is the pain one child can experience
Visible for other children to witness
It is available for the world to easily google
It is said that segregation is completely dissolved
That we have progressed
Yet, children are divided into groups
At their schools
In the playgrounds
Their homes are not in proximity
To those of different races
The children either have access to a healthy life
Full of organic foods and recycling
While others drink from contaminated water
In the south
Education continues to resegregate
Exclude children
Worry children
Creating whiter campuses
Removing children from a school they call home
Removing them from technology
Wouldn't this be maltreatment
Children are being trained to be inferior or superior
Children are learning to devalue differences
Children are losing compassion
Education is supposed to be a human right
However, it has walls of hostility
Walls the rebirth our darker historical moments
Moments our own adult hands have created
