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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She's a minority now. I'm totally okay with it. As long as the programs are good. Shepard really does look like a very solid school--probably a little similar to where she is now. [/quote]

I would just be careful that your child is not an "only" whatever unless she is mixed and will be able to get in with one group or another.  Parents have posted here about hostility directed toward very young children based on race - refusing to play with the kid, telling her to get her white ass out of there, etc.  Most parents seem to agree that being a minority is ok, but being an only can be profoundly unpleasant.

The other thing that is going to be very hard to understand initially (I grew up here, but my husband, who is Latino, grew up in NYC and we lived there for a while) is that even though there is now a fairly large Latino population, the city is racially polarized along black and white lines and the haters do not seem to see that anything else exists.  My husband says he has NEVER lived in such a segregated environment, and he grew up partially in the South Bronx and Spanish Harlem.  And because the tradition is Black vs White, there is still a lot of hostility there from parents, especially now that the city is no longer majority AA and some feel they are being pushed out of THEIR city by white gentrifiers.

I don't remember the school names, but there is I think one principal who basically has said she does not want more white kids in her ES, and there is one PTA where it was revived by the new white parents on the block and they were all voted out by AA parents the following year and the kids left as well and the attitude of some on this board was better no PTA than a white PTA.

So in schools where the population is shifting radically if your kid is going into third grade and the third grade parents don't like the fact that there are a bunch of white folk in the younger grades, and pass that sentiment along to their  kids, you and your kid may get some hostility if you are white (if you are mixed, Latino, or Asian, they might just ignore you, but being an only is dangerous).

Not to be negative, but my husband was shocked and when I came home I immediately noticed the differences on the subways and the buses and the neighborhoods that had been invisible to me before.

Can someone help me out here with the names?  Coming from NYC this is a dynamic my husband was completely unfamiliar with............[/quote]

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