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There is an interesting article about how race affects the decision to go back to school. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/why-black-parents-arent-

by clcaev 6y ago

There is an interesting article about how race affects the decision to go back to school. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/why-black-parents-arent-joining-the-push-to-reopen-schools/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/why-black-paren...

rayiner 6y ago
It's interesting how Mother Jones spins a fairly minor polling difference into a whole narrative about "Black Parents [Not] Joining the Push to Reopen Schools." First, they clearly are. According to the CDC study cited by the article, 46% of Black parents agreed that schools should reopen in the fall: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6949a2.htm?s_cid=mm6949a2_w https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6949a2.htm?s_cid=mm.... The article spins out a Black-white difference on this measure because 62% of white parents think schools should reopen in the fall. That modest difference can almost certainly be explained by differences in where people live: Black people are more likely to live in urban areas, where density can feed concerns about easier spread of the disease. They are also more likely to live in Democratic jurisdictions, especially cities, where government officials have been more cautious and have urged more caution about reopening. As a Marylander, I'm not surprised that people in a neighborhood within Baltimore City limits is skeptical about school reopening. The white people up there are also skeptical about reopening! Meanwhile here in exurban Anne Arundel county, people are much more eager about school reopening. We had protests this past summer in front of the county health office (which is by my house) urging the county to reopen high school sports. Black parents were at least as well represented at these protests as they are in the county as a whole (about 15-20%).
- kortilla 6y ago
  It’s Mother Jones, not exactly a bastion of rationalism. If there is a way to use any slight statistical difference to support the current du jour narrative (“white people are the problem” is a big one), you can count on them to do it.
testesttest 6y ago
Not accurate in my community and no data. It is an opinion piece extrapolating from a few examples.

by clcaev 6y ago

rayiner 6y ago

It's interesting how Mother Jones spins a fairly minor polling difference into a whole narrative about "Black Parents [Not] Joining the Push to Reopen Schools." First, they clearly are. According to the CDC study cited by the article, 46% of Black parents agreed that schools should reopen in the fall: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6949a2.htm?s_cid=mm6949a2_w https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6949a2.htm?s_cid=mm.... The article spins out a Black-white difference on this measure because 62% of white parents think schools should reopen in the fall. That modest difference can almost certainly be explained by differences in where people live: Black people are more likely to live in urban areas, where density can feed concerns about easier spread of the disease. They are also more likely to live in Democratic jurisdictions, especially cities, where government officials have been more cautious and have urged more caution about reopening. As a Marylander, I'm not surprised that people in a neighborhood within Baltimore City limits is skeptical about school reopening. The white people up there are also skeptical about reopening! Meanwhile here in exurban Anne Arundel county, people are much more eager about school reopening. We had protests this past summer in front of the county health office (which is by my house) urging the county to reopen high school sports. Black parents were at least as well represented at these protests as they are in the county as a whole (about 15-20%).

kortilla 6y ago
It’s Mother Jones, not exactly a bastion of rationalism. If there is a way to use any slight statistical difference to support the current du jour narrative (“white people are the problem” is a big one), you can count on them to do it.

testesttest 6y ago

Not accurate in my community and no data. It is an opinion piece extrapolating from a few examples.