Missing in School Reopening Plans: Black Families’ Trust

Eliza Shapiro, Erica L. Green and Juliana Kim:

“For generations, these public schools have failed us and prepared us for prison, and now it’s like they’re preparing us to pass away,” said Sarah Carpenter, the executive director of Memphis Lift, a parent advocacy group in Tennessee. “We know that our kids have lost a lot, but we’d rather our kids to be out of school than dead.”