by Courtney Mykytyn | Jan 4, 2016 | our stories, parenting, race
Holy Hell. I was in the middle of writing a post the other morning about our collective parenting angst regarding schools when my phone exploded with 6am texts from fellow parents. Our district closed all schools for the day due to a “credible terrorism threat.” So...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jan 4, 2016 | our stories, race
My facebook feed often suggests posts like this one: The Top ten school districts in the Nation! https://k12.niche.com/rankings/public-school-districts/best-overall/. These posts really piss me off. Firstly, it is the kind of post that piques a sense of...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Dec 2, 2015 | our stories, race
We know segregated schools are pretty crappy for poor kids. We know that integrating schools is really hard policy to implement. So then, if we really actually care about integrating schools, it would seem that the only long-lasting way to do this is through parents....
by Courtney Mykytyn | Nov 18, 2015 | our stories
My neighborhood wasn’t “up and coming” when we bought our little house. It is now, but then it was what my husband and I could afford, close to the city and therefore easy to get to our various work and school places. And our neighborhood was cute, in that slightly...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Nov 17, 2015 | our stories, race, social justice
Right now in America (the land of opportunity and democracy), our public schools (funded by taxpayers and imparted with the job of teaching all children) are more segregated now than ever before. We are more segregated than before Mendez v. Westminster...
