The original Huck Finn is not about slavery; it’s not about race. This is a story about an abused kid looking for a safe haven. - Tim DeRoche

District bureaucrats will insist that these maps are necessary to preserve the neighborhood school. But it’s worth remembering that we all shop at neighborhood grocery stores, and we don’t need exclusionary government maps to do it.

I started thinking of Huck Finn as a protoypical American myth.

Almost 80 percent of public school children attend their assigned public school. If American public schools are divided along economic and racial lines (and it’s indisputable that they are), then it is primarily because of geographic school assignment, not because a minority of parents look to escape the failing schools they’ve been assigned to.