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[quote=Anonymous]I think that I'm dealing with this right now. DD has been getting lots of reports from school about misbehavior and I've been working with her teacher and principal on trying to mitigate it. But lately, I've noticed that DD will tell me that she is responding to something someone else does to her, yet she's the only one that gets in trouble. A student will call her a name and when she responds and is immediately punished while the other kid is not at all. I try to take some of these reports with a grain of salt because I've witnessed DD say that something wasn't "fair" (like us not giving her a sibling), but I do wonder how often she's really misbehaving, or are her incidents magnified because she's the only black child in her grade.

Recently I went to a parent visiting day at her school and noticed several children doing the things that I get emails and meetings about (not listening, talking out of turn/yelling out distracting things while the teacher is talking, not sitting still AT ALL, etc) and I wondered why my black DD seems to constantly be "in trouble". In all fairness, I also acknowledge that I don't know what the other parents get from the school as well, but I don't feel good about what I saw yesterday in relation to the sheer volume that I receive.  [/quote]

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