Good Schools

This article, together with last week's episode of This American Life, heartbreakingly demonstrate how the words "good schools" usually work as nothing more than coded language for segregationists. In both cases it's very clear from white parents' responses that their idea of what made their schools "good" had absolutely nothing to do with anything educators were doing. In my experience, people usually don't back up what they mean by "good schools," but when their preferences are revealed:

"The role of race in choosing schools was so pronounced that parents actually put their kids in lower-performing schools rather than enroll them in a higher-performing school with large numbers of minority students."

The Troubling Ways Wealthy Parents Pick Schools