Do you think a white child would experience descrimination in PGCPS?

[Anonymous]

My white kid in a majority black school is doing fine and has friends. Sometimes kids point out that he's white. Sometimes these kids are friends of his. Guess what. He's different. Learning to deal with this gracefully is part of life.

[Anonymous]

I would be hesitant, but as long as they aren't the only white kids it will probably be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't do it! Your kids will be miserable in an all black school! Move or send them to private!

Completely disagree. This has not been our experience. (And probably not yours as well)

My child is the only white child in the grade in a Prince George's County school. He is happy and thriving there. When he was much younger, the kids were learning about Dr. King and the civil rights movement. When they discussed segregation, one girl exclaimed, "If it weren't for Martin Luther King, we wouldn't have (my kid's name) to play with." Then several of the children spontaneously got up and hugged my child.

He's older now and still absolutely loves his school.

We really couldn't be happier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't do it! Your kids will be miserable in an all black school! Move or send them to private!

Completely disagree. This has not been our experience. (And probably not yours as well)

My child is the only white child in the grade in a Prince George's County school. He is happy and thriving there. When he was much younger, the kids were learning about Dr. King and the civil rights movement. When they discussed segregation, one girl exclaimed, "If it weren't for Martin Luther King, we wouldn't have (my kid's name) to play with." Then several of the children spontaneously got up and hugged my child.

He's older now and still absolutely loves his school.

We really couldn't be happier.

I guess it's churlish to point out that MLK neither desegregated nor integrated the schools in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't do it! Your kids will be miserable in an all black school! Move or send them to private!

Completely disagree. This has not been our experience. (And probably not yours as well)

My child is the only white child in the grade in a Prince George's County school. He is happy and thriving there. When he was much younger, the kids were learning about Dr. King and the civil rights movement. When they discussed segregation, one girl exclaimed, "If it weren't for Martin Luther King, we wouldn't have (my kid's name) to play with." Then several of the children spontaneously got up and hugged my child.

He's older now and still absolutely loves his school.

We really couldn't be happier.

I guess it's churlish to point out that MLK neither desegregated nor integrated the schools in Maryland.

Not only churlish, but stupid too. Only on DCUM would someone pick apart a sweet anecdote about innocent kids.

[Anonymous]

*sigh*

This is a troll post and so are about 7 of the responses.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

This is not a ridiculous question.

Both of my (white) children have attended pgcps public schools and been the only white children in their classes some years. MOSTLY it has been fine. They have had no problems fitting in with black (or in one school, Hispanic) kids and no discrimination at all from teachers (who have been both black and white).

My son did experience some upsetting comments from other children along the lines of: "You can't come to my party because you're white." This was in first or second grade and I think this was an age of all the kids exploring what "race" means in our society. That is to say, I don't think the comments were necessarily malicious and they had the potential to be a teaching moment for all.

I actually think it's a benefit that my white kids are confronted with issues of race that most American children do not have to think about. It offers a very different perspective to be a minority in this type of setting and hopefully will provide deeper insight and greater empathy in the future.

[Anonymous]

I went to school in PG and was always fine, but my schools were pretty mixed.

I had a friend who went to a very AA middle school, and he totally felt singled out. Hated the experience.

[Anonymous]

You're white so that means you've got money. Move to MoCo.

[Anonymous]

We did this and it was OK, but not a great experience. A couple times they were singled out but for the most part they just didn't make a lot of friends. We've since moved to another county and they have many more friends now.