Sentences with phrase «avoid sending their children to school»

He's embarrassed that the Christian school movement was historically driven in part by whites who wanted to avoid sending their children to school with blacks.

We were all exploring ways to avoid sending our children to the school, though maybe like all parents, I felt mine was a unique case.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

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What is even sadder is that those parents often come from families that can't afford to send their children to private and parochial schools to avoid the insanity of this program.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

Even when they do live in urban districts, many of them either use school choice clauses in collective bargaining agreements to get first dibs on schools that don't have Black or Latino children in them, or just send their kids to private schools to avoid the failure mills they themselves work in.

And I thought the introduction to a recent interview of the NYT's Nikole Hannah - Jones by Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg overstated the role of charter schools as a method for white parents to avoid sending their kids to schools with black and brown children.