Parents, across race and income groups, care about their children’s education and well-being. The ability to engage in schooling options like pods/micro-schools is not an indication of how much you value education or socialization, or how much you want to keep your kids safe. ...

It simply indicates that the reality for mid to high-income families is starkly different from working class families, whose worries are more basic. Paying for rent/food + lack of a safety net means keeping their children academically on track and safe and healthy is not a given!

There was a good thread I RT’d last week on districts partnering w/ community-based orgs. Without more creative thinking from school systems many historically underserved Ss will be home w/ shoddy WiFi & inadequate academic instruction, while affluent families barely miss a beat.