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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did. I grew up in PG, and was one of maybe 50 white kids in my high school. Not my high school class - I mean the entire school - all four grades, maybe 3,000 students. I have no idea how many times I was beat up for being the white boy, it had to be in the dozens of times. Got put in the hospital ER twice, once in 9th grade, once in 10th grade. It was miserable. Like a prison movie. I never forgave my parents, especially my father, for putting me through that. Too cheap to move us to Montgomery or Fairfax counties, too cheap to spring for tuition at a private school, they spent money on boats and RV’s instead. So I went to public school and got beat up probably two hundred times before I was 18. [/quote]

That's tantamount to abuse. My husband was the lone Asian immigrant that got routinely beat up in his unsafe, low-income, middle school. He came home one day and told his parents that he was never going to school again if they didn't figure out a way to get him into the better middle school further away in a tonier suburb. His parents couldn't afford to move in-bounds for the better school, so his mother lied on a school form (used a friend's address) to enroll him. He went on to the better high school, then go into med school, and graduated with an MD/PhD. I don't think anyone regretted lying on the school form. I don't blame them either!
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