From WSJopinion: For today’s Democratic Party, racial balance is the highest priority, even if it means keeping low-income minorities trapped in violent, low-performing schools, writes jasonrileywsj
During a recent panel discussion about the popularity of pods among black families, Lakisha Young of Oakland Reach, a parent-advocacy group, said the movement was born of necessity. “We saw our [school] system not responding to our families and our communities.” Another panelist, Maxine McKinney de Royston, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who co-founded a microschool, said the pandemic just “exacerbated the dissatisfaction that black parents already had” with their schools.
Pod learning, like charter schools, has been criticized for contributing to school segregation. A public-school official in Atlanta wrote in thethat pods “exacerbate inequities, racial segregation and the opportunity gap within schools.” But where is the evidence that black children need to sit next to white children to learn? Some of the highest-performing public schools in the U.S. are public charter schools with student bodies that are overwhelmingly black and Latino.
Black parents who embrace education alternatives understand that a school’s quality doesn’t depend on the racial makeup of the classroom. For today’s Democratic Party, however, racial balance is the highest priority, even if it means keeping low-income minorities trapped in violent, low-performing schools with the least-experienced teachers at the head of the classroom.
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