Parental school choice fragments entire educational systems along racial lines

Evidence

The racism crisis in schools may take a less spectacular but equally important form, that of segregation. To ensure that their children have the best chances of succeeding at school, parents turn to the schools which are known for their social and possibly cultural homogeneity, and avoid schools with a high percentage of poor and immigrant-origin children. In the long run this contributes to the fragmentation of the educational system as a whole. Segregation in housing is frequently a less direct, but more widespread, way of ensuring segregation at school. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3158

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Outlawing explicit race measures resegregates schools through residential sorting — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 394; Mandating white majorities made fully desegregated schools inherently unstable. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 94