Sound familiar, @BostonGlobe? Spend barrels of ink to paint @BostonSchools as “bad” and folks believe you.
Privileged families consumed this fiction, bolstered by conscious or unconscious white supremacy and the belief that black and brown schools are “bad”.
As Thurgood Marshall famously said in his Milliken dissent. “Unless our children begin to learn together, there is little hope that our people will ever begin to live together.”
I have two white, privileged kids in BPS. (Their experience is obviously different from that of their Latinx and Black classmates.)
My kids benefit from learning and playing in a racially diverse school, and I make no apologies for that. #bospoli #kidstoday
We can’t expect those who plan Boston as a playground for the rich and childless to turn this trend around. Those of us with the privilege of options must exercise them.
Enter global-majority schools humbly and not as an authority on how it should run for *your* kid.
Give your kids the gift of integration and then work to support *all* our kids.
I am often wrong or off-base, so I accept your criticism of this thread.