Nice White Parents is brought to you by Cereal Productions, a New York Times company.

From Cereal Productions, I'm Khauna Jaffee Walt.

This is Nice White Parents, a series about the 60-year relationship between White Parents

and the public school down the block, a series that was meant to be told in four episodes.

And yet, I'm still talking.

I never expected to make a fifth episode.

I'd already gone back to the beginning of the school and all the way through the present

day.

60 years in one building, I felt like I'd seen all the various ways Nice White Parents

will participate in public education and the limits of that participation.

I understood that Nice White Parents might opt into certain integrated schools under certain

circumstances, but they, we, we're not going to make way for a fully integrated, equitable

school system.

Because an equitable school system would likely mean the schools our kids go to would get

less money, not more.

Our kids might get less access to the most experienced teachers and the best facilities.

So of course, we were not going to make way for that.

And nobody was going to force us.

White Parents will stand in the way of truly equal schools the end.

That's how I plan to end this.

I mean, let's keep trying, but basically, the end.

Have a nice day.

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