Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City

June 28, 2016 9:27 AM

Nikole Hannah-Jones writes at length about the struggle to choose a school for her daughter in one of America's most segregated school systems. "I understood that so much of school segregation is structural — a result of decades of housing discrimination, of political calculations and the machinations of policy makers, of simple inertia. But I also believed that it is the choices of individual parents that uphold the system." She writes in-depth about the history of segregation, integration and gentrification in her neighbourhood of New York.
posted by clawsoon (2 comments total)

Double
posted by I-baLL at 9:29 AM on June 28, 2016

Damn. I was surprised when I didn't find it in my Metafilter searches. Nuke it!
posted by clawsoon at 9:33 AM on June 28, 2016