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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is in elementary school. She was born here. But Indian origin.
She is smart kid and wants to learn.
However she is always put on table where her back is against the board. Every time the teacher changes their place. She always get her back facing the board. She tried to tell teacher but the teacher said she will try next time she changes again.
I feel that the teacher is only paying attention to white kids. 
I spoke to my husband and he said to not think like that otherwise every time we will be thinking like that.
We just need to make our kids work twice harder.
So I asked my husband why? He said that how it is and in the long run she will come out to be the best and to ignore everything else.
Am I thinking too much?[/quote]

You are both over and under thinking it. It's likely not racism, it's likely the use of "pod seating" aka tables. Essentially any seating arrangement other than rows of forward facing chairs often means HALF the students are facing away (or at least sideways) from the teacher. Often the best a teacher can arrange the pods is so that EVERYONE is sideways to the teacher - but no one is facing away. But sometimes the physical layout/geometry of the classroom means some students are seated "backwards". Yeah, it's a problem; the classrooms were designed for rows of desks and then switched to pods, which would require different geometry.

I'd argue you've just been a tad unlucky so far, but I bet a large percent of the class has the same bad luck.

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