Millions of minority families have moved outside the country’s largest cities over the past 20 years. But even many of those privileged spaces have likely seen significant demographic change over the past few decades. All-white classrooms with a few token Asians, expansive, well-kept playing fields and pickup circles filled with Volvo S.U.V.s driven by anxious, potentially reactionary mothers might still exist in small pockets of the country. The suburban school is an imagined space that invites an unhealthy amount of hyperbole, misinterpretation and fear.
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