Or… How about you start accepting more nonwhite children into your school? Maybe even seek funding to enable a more diverse cohort of kids to afford your fees?
In most circumstances, the schools are assigned simply by geographic area.
When they end up all-white, the real problem is that the community is de-facto segregated.
In turn, that means the real problem is that the zoning code doesn’t allow a diversity of housing types at different price points.
And of course, the implication of that is that the real problem is that minorities tend to be less wealthy than the white people, because of centuries of all sorts of institutional and systemic racism.
TL;DR: it’s a lot more complicated than “accept more nonwhite children into your school.”
If it’s what the US calls Public School, that’s all very true and it’s why children get bused all over Los Angeles, with various strategies to combat the history of redlining.
For instance there are Magnet Schools in affluent neighborhoods where the wealthiest of the local kids go to private schools, drawing kids with specific interests and/or skills from less affluent neighborhoods to help keep the school open for the local public-school kids.
In my experience the racial groups tended to socialize separately anyway, but I’m old, hopefully that’s less true. And even so, at least you don’t have kids growing up who’ve never met a different-color person.
Or… How about you start accepting more nonwhite children into your school? Maybe even seek funding to enable a more diverse cohort of kids to afford your fees?
In most circumstances, the schools are assigned simply by geographic area.
When they end up all-white, the real problem is that the community is de-facto segregated.
In turn, that means the real problem is that the zoning code doesn’t allow a diversity of housing types at different price points.
And of course, the implication of that is that the real problem is that minorities tend to be less wealthy than the white people, because of centuries of all sorts of institutional and systemic racism.
TL;DR: it’s a lot more complicated than “accept more nonwhite children into your school.”
Also, in large swaths of rural America, there simply aren’t non-whites to “accept”.
If it’s what the US calls Public School, that’s all very true and it’s why children get bused all over Los Angeles, with various strategies to combat the history of redlining.
For instance there are Magnet Schools in affluent neighborhoods where the wealthiest of the local kids go to private schools, drawing kids with specific interests and/or skills from less affluent neighborhoods to help keep the school open for the local public-school kids.
In my experience the racial groups tended to socialize separately anyway, but I’m old, hopefully that’s less true. And even so, at least you don’t have kids growing up who’ve never met a different-color person.