The Dallas News reports that affluent black parents are voting with their feet and moving into school districts that promise the best education:
In some school districts where black affluence has increased so has poverty, raising new challenges for schools and questions for families. Do they stay and try to improve the public schools? Or do they use their financial resources to transfer their children into academically superior schools?...
The parents who are interviewed did indeed transfer their kids, but the article points out that black kids can suffer from the "too much too soon" affluenza just like white kids, which, along with the lack of support for education in black popular culture, can be a double whammy. Thus, the recipe for success for black parents doesn't seem to be just about finding the right schools, but also in trying to combat the low expectations that society has for black students.
Posted by kswygert at June 27, 2005 11:12 PM