White families resist even balanced schools they must attend

Evidence

The self-interest of convenience for the white students and parents is validated by the finding that those white students allowed to stay at their own neighborhood school which was to be racially balanced in the same manner as the formerly black schools, only 21 percent of the students were not in attendance (Rossell, 16). This 21 percent may be explained by the racist beliefs of the white people. Some notions are that they resent the equitable distribution of scarce resources, they think the teachers in desegregated schools will have lower expectations, and they do to welcome the new set of peers to whom their children will be exposed (Jencks, 108). — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 26

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why would families abandon a school that is racially balanced yet presumably comparable in quality? The stated reasons deserve scrutiny.
• XREF: connects to: Mandating white majorities made fully desegregated schools inherently unstable. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 94; White resistance in transitioning Atlanta neighborhoods targeted institutions like schools and churches. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 211