Nicole Robinson's Reviews > Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

As others have said—this isn’t about the suburbs. It’s about schools. Not that it isn’t interesting but it’s a bit misleading.

Also, your heart goes out to some of the families that he profiled (CA, PA and IL) and maybe they should have been the focus. The others are portrayed as struggling with their schools but have obvious affluence—wealth and advantages that would make such a huge difference to the other families, and you see it reflected in their “issues”.

Like, Really? Unprovoked, your kid puts glue in another student’s hair and we’re supposed to feel sympathetic?