- Brown had at least one great negative unintended consequence for American Public Schools: It began the historical trend of removing control over schools from locally elected officials to non-elected officials to the federal government.
- Increasing federal involvement in local systems especially through desegregation court orders, has resulted in the alienation of many white – and increasingly Black- middle class families.
- There seems a kind of perverse logic in operation here, where federal funding guidelines encourage schools to debase themselves.