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Reply to "SO: How do you fit into a poor or primarily minority public school"
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[quote=Anonymous]I am a white woman and I went to a majority-black school in middle school. It was very uncomfortable at first...I spent lunch in the bathroom hiding in a stall for the first few weeks of school because I was scared of the lunchroom. The white kids stuck together for sure. Well, the white kids who "acted white" that is. Those who "acted black" hung out with the black kids. I use these phrases in quotes because they were the phrases that were used to describe kids by other kids. There was also "white people music" and "black people music", etc. My first kiss, in the 8th grade, was my black boyfriend. There was not a lot of focus on education among my peers, which had nothing to do with race and everything to do w/socio-economics. It was an environment in which being smart was not cool. Granted, this was the late 80s in Florida, so things could be completely different here and now.[/quote]
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