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When school boundaries limit your child's social connections

My kid goes to the neighborhood school but all her friends live across town in better districts and I feel guilty that we cannot afford to move where the opportunities are.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational inequality creates social divisions that separate children from peers and parents from the communities they wish they could access.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Neighborhood and place-based belonging?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.