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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s get real racist ideas are present in every aspect
Of our society particularly in education. The reason as a educated. Black family we would hesitate to send out
child to lower SES mostly black school is because those teaching them historically have had lower expectations for our children based on race. But I am going to send my child to a school that is title one mostly black because they are working to address through ani-racist training and they have made significant gains in their scores as well. I work in a title one school is some of the reasons our students do not do well is because teachers have their own notions about their ability levels based on their SES levels. [/quote]

So look it's actually not about race.  It's about having a high performing cohort period

Why would anyone send their kid to a school where a majority of kids are below grade level that's common sense

Now there is a racial component, no one is comfortable if they are a minority aka if there aren't at least 10-20% of kids that look like your kid folks are going to feel out of place, especially if the other 80-90% are all one race.[/quote]

Wow that sounds like such a ridiculous white centric idea.  As person of color I can't think about not sending my child some where because 20% of the students are not of the same race. [/quote]

Yeah, I'm black and unaware of any black folks -- especially high-SES types -- that have 20% AA as a minimum threshold for anything. That is completely unrealistic, especially for a "high-performing" school, sadly. Now, I grant that some/many white folks might have such a minimum threshold for the percentage of white kids, but that's because whiteness is often presumed to be normal or baseline and they don't have much experience being in the minority, or even a mere plurality in some cases.  If I or my parents had had that sort of attitude, I wouldn't have taken a single honors or AP class in high school, since I was the ONLY black male (and often the only black student) in those classes for my entire high school career. This type of thing is just life for POC.
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