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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tubman is on our lottery list. We are IB, though, so it's a safety school. There are other schools I'd rather DD go to, for a variety of reasons that are unrelated to Tubman itself. We bought in 2011 because of the improvement in the school. It was a more appealing school than others in the area (Raymond, Powell) at the time and, to us, a perfectly acceptable option if DD does not get into anything else. I think that [b]many white families in the area are put off by the idea of their child potentially being the only white child in their class [/b]more than they are by the proximity of public housing.[/quote]

Tubman has a recent history of alienating white parents.  If that is the message that was crystal clear to a parent - would you want your child to tbe the only lonely in the classroom all day?
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I think that the white parent alienation is problematic, and it would definitely be something to consider. That said, it's been my experience at our current school, where my blonde blue-eyed DD is the racial minority in her class, that young children are a lot less bothered by this sort of thing than their parents are. Certainly older children (of all races) can pick up racist habits from their parents, but 3, 4, 5 year olds? They're kids playing with other kids, in my experience.[/quote]

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