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[quote=Anonymous]And a big part of the parenting problem has to do with parents' ability to make a livable income.  Guess where that ability starts?

Yes, there are choices to be made but if those choices are harshly limited, you have to be a pretty extraordinary person to just find out what better choices are out there, let alone make them.

For a lot of parents, the right choice is getting their kid out of their immediate neighborhood.  That's more and more difficult to do with housing choices, so school is a start but we're cutting that off, too.

For more on the history of federal-level policymaking that created housing segregation, listen to the "House Rules" episode of This American Life that features the research of Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was also in the NPR story in the original post on this thread.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/house-rules

If you can't give up a whole hour, just listen to the 5 minute prologue about the girl whose mother went to jail for sending her daughter to a school in a different neighborhood.[/quote]

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