Survey Results
Survey
and Analysis done by
Saleem Anderson, Abdeel Bhatti,
Malik Bostic-Smith, Wen Chen, Jose Colon, Kevin DeJoie, Heather Florian,
Narissa Knorr, Tanesha Lewis, Kareem McCafferty, Sean McGregor, Lauren
McQuaid, Rafael Nako, Nicole Rubinson, Nellie Sanchez, Alexander
Stokes, Erica Vanhinkle, Heather Volent, Jerrell Walden
We developed the questions as a class. We wanted
to learn about Northeast's students' attitudes toward attending an integrated
school in the 21st century. We surveyed 328 students in
U.S. History classes (possibly about 1/2 of the Junior class). Today
in the United States more schools are becoming segregated but Northeast is
becoming more integrated. The following is a summary of
the survey results:
Based on our findings,
--Northeast High School is perceived as a multicultural school by most
students
--NEHS students don't agree on whether or not conflicts or fights are
based on ethnic conflicts
--African American and European American students are more likely to
find segregation in the cafeteria and library; many Latino/as "don't
know"
--students don't believe teachers discriminate based on ethnicity /
race or academic skills / Small Learning Community
--students don't agree on whether or not teachers discriminate based
on appearance (clothing, jewelry, etc.)
--1/2 of the students surveyed believe discipline is administered fairly
regardless of a students ethnicity / race but 1/4 of Latino/a and
African American students believe discipline is not administered fairly
--there were a variety of responses to whether or not discipline is
administered fairly based on appearance, academic skills and athletic ability
--over half of the students believe they learn about other cultures
at Northeast High School
--there was minimal agreement on whether or not students learn about
their own culture 25 - 35% of African American and Latino/a students don't
believe they learn about their culture
--there were a variety of responses to whether or not students prefer
attending a culturally diverse school
For example, 30% of African American students strongly agree with attending
a culturally diverse school while 36% disagree; 25% of European
American want to attend a culturally diverse school and 25% do not; 40%
of Asian American want to attend a culturally diverse school and 36% do
not
--nearly 75% of African American, 50% of Latino/a and 45% of Multicultural
students have experienced some form of discrimination while 50% of Asian
Americans and 30% of European Americans have not experienced discrimination.
--more than half of the students believe it is important for them or
their children to attend an ethnically diverse school but 35 - 40%
of students "don't know"
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(Graphs
of survey results for each question are listed below in numerical order.)
1. Most (50 - 65%) students agree Northeast HS is a
multicultural school and the extra curricular activities involve students
of all ethnic backgrounds.
2. There was no clear opinion on inter ethnic / interracial
conflicts or fights. The responses were primarily between
somewhat agree to somewhat disagree. The group that had the strongest
response (nearly 50%) to "somewhat disagree" is multicultural
ethnic background. 31% of European American students "somewhat disagree"
while 33% of Latino/a and Multicultural checked "somewhat agree."
3. Regarding segregation at Northeast HS, (ques. 7 - 10),
responses were from "strongly disagree to strongly agree" regarding
segregation in the cafeteria and library. Most students feel there
is segregation. The only group that had a significance response
to "don't know" is Latinos/as. Multicultural students had the largest
response to "strongly disagree."
Most students believe there is no segregation in the classroom though
Latino/a students had a significant response to "don't know" and European
American and multicultural students had a significant response to "somewhat
disagree."
Most students believe Northeast HS encourages students from different
backgrounds to interact with each other.
4. Most students believe teachers don't discriminate based
on ethnicity / race or academic skills / Small Learning Community. There
was a significant response from Latino/a students to teachers do
discriminate based on academic skills / Small Learning Community and a
significant number of multicultural students check "don't know." There
were varied response to teacher not discriminating against students based
on appearance (jewelry, clothing, etc.). More than half of the multicultural
students checked "somewhat disagree" and the European American response
was split between "somewhat disagree" and "somewhat agree." The clearest
response was to teachers not discriminating based on religion.
5. There were very varied response to discrimination and school
discipline.
Nearly 50% of all students somewhat or strongly agree that
discipline is administered fairly regardless of ethnicity or race.
Nevertheless, about 25% of Latino/a and African American students somewhat
disagree.
More than 50% of students surveyed believe discipline is administered
fairly regardless of religion. Nevertheless, other than Latino/a
students, approximately 30% of all other students checked "don't know."
The most varied responses were to discipline based on appearance.
35% of Multicultural students and over 25% of European American
students
somewhat disagree that discipline is fair.
There were also varied responses to discipline based on academics
or Small Learning Community. Over 30% of the multicultural students
somewhat disagree while over 40% of the Asian American students somewhat
agree discipline is fair.
The responses to discrimination based on athletic ability were also
varied. Most students either don't know or somewhat or strongly agree
there isn't discrimination based on athletic ability.
6. Questions 20 and 21 asks students if they learn about their
culture or other cultures.
Learning about their own culture:
Nearly 30% of Latino/a students said they "somewhat agree" while
35% said they "somewhat disagree."
More than 30% of African American students said they "somewhat
agree" and 25% "somewhat disagree."
More than 25% of Asian American students said they "somewhat agree."
European American responses were all near 20% for all categories.
Learning about other cultures:
50% or nearly 50% of Latino/a, European American and Multicultural
students checked "somewhat agree."
Nearly 60% of African American students checked "somewhat" or "strongly"
agree.
Nearly 50% of Multicultural students checked "somewhat agree."
Question 22 asks if students have 5 or more good friends from another
ethnic background. More than 50 - 70% of all students checked "strongly
agree." At the same time, more than 50% - 60% of all students
"somewhat" or "strongly disagree" there are no ethnic cliques at Northeast.
7. Questions 24 - 25 ask if attending an ethnically diverse
school is beneficial. For both questions, most students from all
groups either "somewhat" or "strongly agree."
Question 26 asked if students would not want to attend a school
where most students are from the same ethnic background. Nearly 30%
of African Americans "strongly disagree" while about 36% "strongly agree."
Almost 25% of European American students "strongly agree" while
25% checked "don't know." 40% of Asian American students "strongly
agree" and about 36% of Latino/a and Multicultural students checked
"strongly agree."
Most students from all groups checked they "strongly agree" with
attending a diverse school including students from other countries.
8. Question 28 asks if students have experienced any form of
discrimination. Nearly 40% of African American students checked
"strongly disagree" and about 35% "somewhat disagree" (have experienced
discrimination). 45 - 50% of Multicultural and Latino/a students
also note discrimination. Nearly 50% of Asian American students
checked "somewhat agree" (have not experienced discrimination). Nearly
30% of European American students checked "somewhat agree" (have not experienced
discrimination.)
9. Questions 29 and 30 ask students if it is important for
them and their (possible) children to attend a diverse school.
Most students checked "somewhat agree" or "strongly agree" for
their attendance at a diverse school. Nevertheless, nearly 40%
of African Americans said "don't know." The responses regarding
their children attending a diverse school were between 55 - nearly 60%
for Latino/a, Asian American and Multicultural students. The responses
for African Americans was about 45% for "strongly agree.". About
35% of European Americans "strongly agree" their children should attend
a diverse school. About 33% of Multicultural, European American and
African American students checked "don't know."
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