Sentences with phrase «class families fleeing»

This largely reflects district demographics, including what appears to be fewer middle - class families fleeing to private.

Many factors have contributed to this steep decline: in the 1960s and 1970s, white middle - class families fled to the suburbs, taking with them tuition dollars and tithes and leaving behind poorer, primarily non-Catholic populations.

Not exact matches

Our innocent surrogate in this hostile domain is smitten, 16 - year - old Jay (Smit - McPhee), who's fled his wealthy Scottish family in pursuit of working - class crush Rose (Pistorius).

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.