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[quote=Anonymous]My child is in a northern school that is part of a cohort of independent schools in our area “coincidentally” founded in the years surrounding desegregation and bussing in the public school system.

There are grandchildren and children of alumni from that time and this small group feels a lot of ownership over the school- in fact, they consider it “their” neighborhood school and have been resistant to financial aid, transportation, etc for 2 decades.

It took me a while to understand why they felt that way. I was searching news articles for a different historical reason and it was really upsetting to uncover the school’s true history and some disgusting coded comments people made at the time. My hometown handled desegregation very differently so it had never dawned on me that my kid’s school was founded to avoid desegregation.

There are a lot of schools like this once you dig. Because of the school community’s cultural issues that still linger and out of disgust at the entire situation, we are weighing a school switch next year.

If our parent and alumni community was a bit more evolved I would feel less upset about its history- but unfortunately it isn’t as distant as I wish it was.[/quote]

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