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I will say this -- I have never spoken ill of the school or even posted about it until now. I'm not writing to complain, but to offer a perspective that might be helpful and that's because your question. It's not my intent to criticize the school because we did thing it was a nice place with a lot of nice families and kids. At the time we were there, I would call it well meaning. The main challenge is that it's just too darn white and that creates a lot of blind spots for the school. It's a nice community overall. We were an affluent family of color. To be honest, I got the sense that many in the community assumed most of the families of color were on aid. I saw a lot of the problems stemming from lack of diversity overall and with implicit bias.  For example, if there were three black kids in a grade, it seemed that the school would put one per class. That's diversity to benefit white kids, but for black kids, that makes them the "only" in their class. Does that make sense? I remember an incident in a younger grade where someone egged my child to do something, and only my child was reprimanded. Maybe bias, maybe not -- but I didn't like being in a place where I had to keep questioning it.  My husband would stand in line at the pancake events and felt like people he had met on numerous occasions would look "through" him as though they didn't see him. He was the one who had to make the effort to remind. We moved to a different school and felt an immediate relief and a sense of belonging that we didn't experience at NPS. Again, it's not to criticize NPS. It was just that we didn't feel a sense of belonging and I was worried that my kid was going to be subject to implicit bias and that it would mess with self esteem. My biggest recommendations would to hire more diverse teachers and to really have the whole parent body (not just the diversity crowd) attend workshops on implicit bias/or equity and inclusion. [/quote]
I too have experienced at NPS being looked through by parents I have previously met, but I now suspect it is a UMC thing, not meant to be rude or even off putting.  Or maybe I am too generous.  Anyhow, it took some getting used to.[/quote]

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