D.C. Urban Moms forum allows parents to gab about schools but reinforces segregation, study finds

In the D.C. parenting world, the anonymous online forum, D.C. Urban Moms and Dads, has long been known as a ripe-for-lampooning-website for wealthy parents who swap advice on the best strollers, how to raise trilingual children and which schools to send their children to in the District.

But a study released this week, which examined more than a decade of exchanges on the forum, found that it may also have a more detrimental, widespread impact in the city: It helps shape how parents perceive schools that mostly serve students of color and reinforces patterns of segregation in the city.