Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: White parents are enabling the return of school segregation. - NBCNewsTHINK
Desegregation can still prompt angry, violent, white backlash. Today, Rooks reports, affluent white districts will sue and prosecute poor people of color who try to access the resources in better districts. In 2014, for example, Tanya McDowell, who was homeless,
in prison for using the address of her babysitter to send her kindergartner to school in the affluent district of Norwalk, Connecticut.arguing that white parents need to do more to promote desegregation, my social media mentions filled up with outraged protests, many of them openly anti-Semitic.
White resistance over the last few decades has been so successful that there is little pressure now to desegregate schools. The virulence of this reaction feels out of proportion. But that's only because white resistance over the last few decades has been so successful that there is little pressure now to desegregate schools. Instead, policy makers argue for"school choice." Poor students of color, the argument goes, can use vouchers from the state to attend private school, or can take courses online, or can enter a lottery to attend charter schools.
Data on charter schools is far from clear that they actually raise test scores, however critics are concerned that some schoolswho do poorly, raising school test averages. And in any case, the many students left behind in the public system face the same problems their predecessors did. U.S.
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