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> But eventually this second generation of school gentrifiers started pushing the black students out. [..] Gradually those students and their parents began to f
by deogeo 7y ago
> But eventually this second generation of school gentrifiers started pushing the black students out. [..] Gradually those students and their parents began to feel less welcome at P.S. 8. It is still more integrated than the Park Slope schools, but it is at 59 percent white students and rising.
Could this be applied to white students as well? I.e. they leave minority-white schools because they "feel less welcome"?
- mieseratte 7y ago> Could this be applied to white students as well? I.e. they leave minority-white schools because they "feel less welcome"? Why wouldn't it be the case as well? Racism knows no race.
- otoburb 7y agoThe sentence you skipped in your quote seems particularly relevant to the question you're asking: "Why should their kids be in class with a child who had serious behavioral problems, because, for example, he lived in a homeless shelter, or because he had seen violence in his home?" So if the same conditions arise (i.e. classmates with serious behavioural problems), race aside, it's absolutely possible that this can be applied to any students.