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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Segregation has to do more with class than race now. My husband and I are Latinos and our two kids look stereotypically Latino (brown hair, brown eyes, tan skin). We are middle class and both have graduate degrees. I don't think any white families have a problem with us being at our predominantly white school. I don't send my kids to a predominately Latino school because we haven't found one that doesn't have a majority of kids who live in poverty. My kids pick up vocabulary and concepts being around other kids with educated parents. [/quote]

THIS.  I do not send my child to our zoned school because the majority of kids who attend are poor and the administration values test scores over learning.  So yes, we chose a school that offers a better curriculum and a more diverse student body (some wealthy, most middle class, some poor).  If I had it my way, every child would have that opportunity.  But the systemic changes needed are far too large for any one person or any one community to fix on their own.[/quote]

Did you attend your local zoned school before making that choice? [/quote]

Met with the principal one-on-one.  All she could talk about was test scores. I didn't know if it was a district thing (maybe some parents like that?).  So I visited a few other area public schools to see how they 'felt'; discussions there focused on curriculum, activities, parental involvement.  Which would you choose?[/quote]

You are exactly the kind of white parent that Hannah-Jones is talking about. The principal of a majority minority school tells you that kids do well at that school, as defined by test scores, and you decide that school is too focused on testing. Whereas majority white schools have the freedom to sell themselves based on other criteria because no one is worried about test scores at a majority white school. Even if the scores are lowish, you just tell yourself that it is because they aren't teaching to the test.

So you avoid your local public, the school that your neighbors use, because it "isn't a good fit." This is the problem. I'm so glad that we're talking about it now. [/quote]

Thank you for saying that so well. Parents are obsessed with a school's GS "score" to the point that they will only move to boundaries with high "scores" but then dismiss schools for taking test scores seriously. You know why private schools don't have to take test scores seriously? Because no one ever knows how their kids perform so they can totally control their own image and marketing. Parents can simply assume all privates are better, without ever considering real performance data.[/quote]

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