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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a Walls parent but I am a parent of a child waiting anxiously for tomorrow's lottery results with Walls at the top of the list. I have read this thread but I'm unclear as to why the kids walked out. Are they supporting and wanting the kids who took the video to be suspended or are they protesting the suspension? Or as someone else mentioned, is this part of a bigger issue?[/quote]

Bigger issues..this incident was just the last straw. The upperclassmen are much more aware of everything. The 9th and 10th graders have been complaining about different standards and treatment for Black kids. I'm hoping this will lead to some real constructive dialogue and level setting. It was a large group of students that walked out NOT just Black kids. SWW has real self-advocacy now![/quote]

Can you please provide more information about the Black students’ perception that there are different standards of treatment?  I’m a Black parent awaiting my  son’s Walls’ decision tomorrow.  Reports of poor treatment based on race is very concerning.[/quote]

Some of the issues brought up by black students is that they’re not listened to in class as respectfully as their white peers,  they re ideas are not listened to in group settings in the way white peers’ ideas are, etc.[/quote]

I asked my 10th grader (black) about some of this in more detail this evening, specifically if they feel black students are treated differently than white students (that is what they have heard), and have you felt this way (I don't talk to teachers much, so no) and then there is a lot stirring around the baseball team specifically. Not once since my kid has been at Walls have they come home with any concerns/examples about being treated differently than white peers.[b] I'm not really sure what to think about all of this.[/b][/quote] What do you mean you don't know what to think?  Your own child possibly hasn't been forthcoming about any perceived issues. But people are telling you there are, and students have actually rallied together (not just the black students). Yet as a black person, you can't imagine a situation where black students might be treated differently, or at least feel like they are? If I were you, i wouldn't know what to think about the fact that my black child is out of touch with the tension and issues surrounding his fellow black peers at a majority non-black school.  Even if he didn't experience anything personally.  I'm sorry fi that sounds harsh, I don't meant to.[/quote]

I'm not even sure this is worth a response but FWIW it's worth, I'lll ignore all the parts about not knowing my kid and/being forthcoming because it could/could not be true and I'll take the my side because I know my kid better than internet stranger. What I will also say is that my other kid is an athlete and very much part of the bro culture so while I do not walk in his shoes everyday at school and feel how he is treated, I do hear him engage in the worst sterotypical bro talk that makes me cringe even as I tell him it's not appropriate and while we tell him constantly not to put anything on the internet that he could regret, he an immature 15 yo. So I will leave it with that I really don't know what to think and it really doesn't matter what you do.[/quote]

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