Fuck this article. It's about a black woman who's super gung-ho about sending her black kid to a black school despite the fact that it's crowded and the test scores suck, despite the fact that fostering diversity would be sending her black kid to a white school. Then there's furor about white parents freaking out about their white kids attending her black school, then things get rezoned and she's all butt-hurt about how now there are white kids coming to her black school and how that's a "victory for the status quo."

I grew up in a spectacularly good school district, but I grew up going to the elementary school that served the trailer parks. My childhood friends didn't graduate. A few of them died. The kids from the good schools? They were the nerds that we all made fun of as we smoked by the overpass. I was a smart kid but I was so adamantly disengaged from academics because my posse? My posse smoked pot and got knocked up.

I happily sent my daughter to a daycare run by Equadorians. They spoke Spanish and had chickens and it was awesome. I'm not sending my kid to the elementary school she can walk to not because it's predominantly latino but because the 9-year-old next door can't fucking read and thinks maybe road signs are alive.

Dated a girl. Parents divorced. She went to live with her mom and went to public school. Her sister went to live with her dad and went to Bill Gates' alma mater. Girl I dated moved in with her drug dealer at 17 and became a social worker. Her sister's at the Max Planck institute.

I'm not about to insist on vouchers. I will happily support whatever tax levees my elected officials think will help everyone else's kids but mine will leave that public education on the table for as long as I can afford to, thanks.

In happymagicleverland, my white kid goes to the Spanish-speaking school and makes a whole bunch of delightful brown friends who all sing koom-bay-yah together. But here in the world she's learning to read at 5 and her three closest friends are Chinese, black and Iranian... and their parents are people like me who want to give their kids every advantage, not make some fucking political statement.