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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bottom line is this-African Americans who want their kid to get a good education will have to tolerate more whites and asians in the school (more than likely a disproportionate amount compared to African American and/or Hispanic kids), because that is just the way it is.  Schools that score well and do well tend to have more white and asian kids in them.  It also has to do with wealth, but even in PG county, where many African Americans have money, good educations and jobs, the schools are low performing, riddled with behavior issues and just not well regarded.  I am not sure why this is, but it is a fact that cannot be "washed" away by calling others names like racist.  There are several African immigrants in my DC's school.  In general, these children are well behaved, respectful, get excellent grades and take their educations seriously.  This cannot be blamed on skin color at all.  It is a cultural thing and sadly, many African Americans are stuck in a vicious cycle that needs to be broken-and it has to start from them and with them.  Blaming white folks who never owned a slave and were not even alive during that time is not going to solve this.  Ironically, the only way "out" is through a good education.  [/quote]

This doesn't even answer the OP's question.  It's not about learning to "tolerate" more whites in school.  Any POC with a white collar job lives that reality everyday and has no illusions of expecting much different in school.  What they want is to ensure their child's identity, confidence and emotional well-being isn't negatively affected in the process.  I'm multi racial and grew up attending an all white school - [b]very rarely was anyone outwardly mean or nasty because of my ethnicity, but that doesn't mean I always felt included and that being noticeably different didn't affect my self-esteem[/b].

Maybe things have changed drastically in 20 years since I was in school since people are so dismissive of OPs concerns in this thread.[/quote]

Yet, if you had been the only white kid in an all black school, you would have been slaughtered by them.  Blacks tend to have less tolerance for whites when whites are the minority.[/quote]

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