For example, magnet schools lure many suburban parents to the city.
Max is 10 years old, the dream-child of every suburban parent.
Fierce resistance from suburban parents and legislators kept such a plan from ever taking hold.
He is the only suburban parent in the suit.
June and her husband, Ward, are often invoked as the archetypal suburban parents of the 1950s.
Both suburban and city parents say the program is ideal for them and their children.
So if city schools improve, suburban parents want their children's education to improve even more.
"And the majority of people I have heard it from are white suburban parents."
Research shows it's the political middle: suburban parents and homeowners.
It draws attention from the real reasons so many white suburban parents sense that their sons are in trouble.