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[quote=Anonymous]We are a high income IB white family with a child at Watkins and I have to chuckle at the comments. Early on, I was disappointed and even a bit disturbed by what I perceived as the black-white divide at the school. Truth is that the type of high income/education family likely to live on the Hill and send its kids to public school may be a bit out of sync with most middle class American families, black or white. My kid's out of town cousins play football and cheerlead and watch more tv and play more video games and eat more junk food than we allow. Doesn't mean that my kid doesn't have anybody to hang with at Watkins, but we are closer to kids with families we see during the summer at the pool or playing on Hill-based sport leagues. Some of that is purely proximity (we met these families when the kids were very young and continue to run into them regularly around the neighborhood). But some of it probably is due to class/race disconnect. I wish we ventured more often outside our comfort zone, but day to day we fall into a pretty predictable routine.

And, as an aside, our smart kid is challenged to a good degree on an academic level. But I've never believed we had a Nobel laureate (or even Ivy League bound student) in training. ;)[/quote]

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