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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m only the parent of a 10 year old and younger kids but from what I’ve read the answer is no. Our child goes to a Title I School. The school has a GT magnet program, arts and music and media, newly renovated, diverse, safe decent testing scores for all races. We wanted our kids to be comfortable with all kinds of people and also to go to a neighborhood school. I have never regretted our choice. DH and I are both employed and went to college and have friends in the school district who are both more and less educated than we are.

I don’t have a link but I think parent education level and resources are the biggest predictors of a child’s level of academic achievement.[/quote]

[b]Have you really met people uncomfortable to work or interact with people of different socioeconomic backgrounds? [/b]How is this a thing that is fixed by going to a struggling high school? OP, as a college age engineer do you regularly hang out with electricians or plumbers that aren’t your neighbors?[/quote]

Holy shit, yes. I have. They don't think of themselves this way but they are the people who don't know what code-switching means, or that huge swaths of people do it. There are some very good-hearted but clueless people out there and they don't even see their blinders bc everyone in their family and circle of friends are basically the same- college, white collar, etc. [/quote]

It sounds more like you are uncomfortable with their lack of ‘wokeness’[/quote
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Nah. You are adding that because then it makes it easier to dismiss what I am saying. I know and love some of these people, those who assume and identify as middle class even though they were raised UMC. I have friends who are good people but just don't realize what it's like to be related to or be friends with folks who are kind of uneducated about the world around them, or not as sophisticated. At the same time I have family that I love dearly that I struggle with greatly bc they have this ridiculous boot strap narrative in their head and feel like they have no privlege at all etc . Neither really fit the definition of woke, LOL. I've seen both be wary and uncomfortable around the idea of the other (my mom even told me not to date or marry someone from significant money bc our world's are too different and this was the 90sand 00s!) .

Being more aware of the spectrum is a good thing, being in proximity is even better. See above, I didn't inherit that same wariness as my mom bc I had much more exposure to wealthy folks than she did. I also don't assume all military or blue collar white folks are Trumpeters who love to fan flames of otherness and "take our country back" stuff bc I come from that world.[/quote]

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