Even in the years before desegregation started, white families started to leave at alarmingly high rates
This reminds me of how real estate agents in the Jim Crow era would encourage white families to move out of their neighborhoods before black families moved in. This was because of fear that their neighborhood would "become bad".
In the South, most school districts are drawn along county borders
I wonder if there is a reasoning behind this. Is it do to the way money is allocated to schools? Or is it based upon population dynamics?
“They consume the resources of our schools, our teachers and our resident students, then go home.”
I find this quote to be ridiculous because the goal of sending children to school is to use the resources given there that you otherwise could not get at home. By using "they", this creates an "us vs. them" complex that is highly problematic
city’s rich network of community-based organizations
What is an example of this? And how did it benefit the community outside of Pre-K?
just one in five classrooms is highly racially diverse, with no racial or ethnic group comprising more than 50 percent of enrollment.
This is interesting to me because NYC is quite diverse, yet just 1 in 5 classrooms happen to be diverse. I wish there was a map I could see to make sense of the locations of where they are placed
Segregation systematically holds back socioeconomic advancement for children of color
It's interesting to note that many people among the general population would disagree with this statement and say that there is not segregation in schools. This is because of the belief that because of Brown v. Board of Education case, segregation was magically eliminated through law, which is not correct