Transcript Episode One: The Book of Statuses A group of parents takes one big step together. “Nice White Parents” is brought to you by Serial Productions, a New York Times Company. I started reporting this story at the very same moment as I was trying to figure out my own relationship to the subject of this story, white parents in New York City public schools. When my kid was old enough, I started learning about my options. There was our zoned public school in Brooklyn, or I could apply to a handful of specialty programs - a gifted program, or a magnet school, or a language program. This was five years ago now, but I vividly remember these tours. I’d show up in the lobby of the school at the time listed on the website, look around, and notice that all or almost all of the other parents who’d shown up for the 11:00 AM, middle-of-the-workday, early-in-the-shopping-season school tour were other white parents. As a group, we’d walk the halls, following a school administrator - almost always a man or woman of color - through a school full of black and brown kids. We’d peer into classroom windows, watch the kids sit in a circle on the rug, ask questions about the lunch menu, homework policy, discipline. We have a partnership with Lincoln Center. They were pleading with us to please take part in this public school. Every hero has to have an origin story and this is that of Captain Nice Meek, mild-mannered police chemist Carter Nash creates a formula that grants.
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