Written by Susan and Anna for Integrated Schools. We recently received a Caregiver Connection request from a White parent whose son was about to start kindergarten. The family had consciously decided not to move to a different neighborhood or district as many other...
White mom, Emily Moores, reflects on the parallels between tending to a garden and tending to the relationships necessary to participate in meaningful integration and living in true community.
There is no Integrated Schools “formula” for choosing and enrolling our children in a new school, and what is important might take a different shape for families depending on their particular racial makeup. To illustrate that, Katherine, a mom in Los Angeles, shares her family’s kindergarten enrollment story.
My last post was about the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at the first round of Democratic primary debates earlier this summer. It’s amazing to me that this already feels so distant. Before getting to the main topic for the posts this week, here’s a quick summary of some of the major things that have happened in the last month or so.
Nice White Parents, the newest season of the hit podcast Serial (now a New York Times production) came out this week. There has already been lots of discussion about it, including about 4800 reviews that surfaced in the weeks before the 1st episode even aired....
Part 1 of the roundup, published yesterday, looked at recent school integration debates in Austin, TX and Wake County, NC. This post summarizes similar activity in Sausalito, Oakland, nearby Baltimore, Charleston, SC and Richmond, VA. As I note in the first post,...