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You should listen to the NYT podcast “Nice White Parents”. Neighbourhood improvement with good intentions can cause systemic problems in a community https://w

• MagnumOpus 6y ago
  Can you summarise? Listening for five hours of chit-chat seems to be excessive to.find out about what might be an anecdote that is not generalisable.
  • granularity 6y ago
    The takeaways (for me) were that: 1) a small number of high-status parents with different priorities than the broader community will often (without malice) influence a school's administration such that the community's more fundamental priorities get lost, 2) political action to enable racial integration of public schools has been a symbolic goal in NYC for generations, but there's been a repeated lack of follow-through due to ... lack of courage and commitment.