School-zone fraud penalties can criminalize black families escaping racist teachers

Evidence

My sister, on the other hand, was having her test results falsified, and that my mother couldn’t tolerate. She took action, removing us from the school with the racist teachers, and using my grandmother’s address to enroll us in another one. (Today my mother’s lie about our home address might result in her being charged with a crime.) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 272

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the theme in Causal Relationships the reader tracks: race-neutral rules (address-based school assignment) enforcing disparate outcomes (black families criminalized for white families’ common ‘choice’ moves). — connects to: Criminalizing black youth establishes racial boundaries before adulthood; Criminalizing black children establishes the boundaries of whiteness — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 426; Racialized governance extends from residential and educational restrictions into criminalization and surveillance (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Criminalizing black youth establishes racial boundaries before adulthood; Criminalizing black children establishes the boundaries of whiteness — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 426; Racialized governance extends from residential and educational restrictions into criminalization and surveillance (+4 more)