Guest column: I send my privileged children to a mostly Latinx school to stop the 'hoarding of opportunity'
Courtney Everts Mykytyn, founder of L.A. nonprofit Integrated Schools and partner to a reality TV producer, shares the benefits of"reprioritizing what matters in building a world we want our children to be adults in."
Schools in the U.S. are arguably more segregated now than before the Civil Rights movement. California has the dubious distinction of having the third-most-segregated schools in the nation for black students and the most segregated schools for Latinx students. Children of color are predominantly isolated into schools of poverty, while their white and/or privileged peers enjoy greater access to highly resourced schools. In L.A.
Attending an integrating school — one in which yours may be the only or one of a few white and/or privileged families — can mean that your child won’t have impressive-sounding academic programs, after-school enrichment activities or big parent-booster budgets. But choosing an integrating school is not so much sacrifice as it is a reprioritizing what matters in building a world we want our children to be adults in.
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