Parents seeking quality

EDITOR: My four grandchildren have attended Sonoma County grade schools where you imply "white flight" is a brown vs. white issue ("Class division," Sunday). You use phrases such as "charter schools foster segregation," and "families are making decisions turning Santa Rosa into a city of segregated schools" and conclude that the "segregation" is a result of white vs. brown. That smacks of being racist and is false.

There is "segregation" (choice), which results from parents searching and fulfilling their responsibility to provide their children with the best education they can find, and it is not on the implied basis of skin color.

Reading your articles, the truth is evident: Many parents are taking their children's education seriously. To blame color instead of quality of education is a false conclusion.

Using diversification as the tool to determine the quality of education will not resolve the problem. CEOs have not sought masters or Ph.Ds for "diversification;" they look for skill sets that will assist in today's competitive world.

Let's be honest. Parents are voting with their feet and moving their children to better academic schools. Fix the quality of our schools and "white flight" will vanish.

WILLIAM R. KONRAD

Healdsburg