The new school model makes it even easier for middle class white parents to ignore the systemic racism baked into the K-16 school system, just as it exacerbates the inequity that our imbalanced educational system creates. But it's likely that their sense of protection and privilege is an illusion trickled down by the truly wealthy, whose children reap benefits from Phillips Exeter or Institut le Rosey that the upper middle class kids will never come close to achieving within their private pods.