Inner group trust and school autonomy in a segregated school system; parental self-segregation in the Netherlands

In its most recent annual report, the Inspectorate of Education (2018) provided evidence of rising segregation in the Netherlands. The report highlights how, in primary education, children are increasingly distributed unequally on the basis of ethnic and socio-economic background. Free school choice enables wealthy parents to opt out of schools that have perceptibly more deprived pupils – thus expressing their wish for like-minded peers for their children. Similarly, parents from low socio-economic groups do not want to send their children to ‘snobbish’ schools, while ethnic groups are worried... Mehr ...