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[quote=Anonymous][quote]NP. I live WOTP, and no, I won't assume that just because you are black. If you send your kid to a WOTP school, I will assume that you either have the means to live here (and thus the education and professional success to get those) or care enough about education to lottery your kid into a good school. I won't make assumptions about your child's preparedness just because of your race. Granted, I'm from Europe, so I haven't been raised with the same racial stereotypes and tensions, but I give my American neighbors the benefit of the doubt that they think similarly.[/quote]

With all sincerity, thanks for the nice sentiment.

Have you ever walked into a room full of chatting people and noticed they've suddenly all gone quiet?  Walked down a street and felt like everyone is staring at you, though no one will make eye contact even when you extend a friendly greeting?  How about waited patiently while a store clerk cheerfully offers assistance to everyone but you?  Any chance you've had a kid tell your kid to get off the slide because "you don't belong here?"

It's just not a way to live.  My parents moved our family to the "good schools" area in another city decades ago.  I'm grateful for all that did for me but I'm making other choices for my family. I've lived in DC now for close to 30 years and met and loved people from many different backgrounds. I love it here. But those experiences I described above didn't happen to me in my midwest hometown when I was a kid.  They happened in upper NW, all within the last five years - one of them at an open house for a good school.  What would it be like for my kid to go there?  I judge by my own experiences.

And I'm not judging anyone else.[/quote]

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