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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White kids have their own peer influence problems.  I, for one, would worry about the type of peer influences that can be found in privates where you have highly privileged teens (mostly white)  with a lot of money and not a lot of parental supervision because the dual income BigLaw partner parents are too busy working to notice that Trip and his buddies are getting high in the rec room of the 6,000 sf Spring Valley mansion.

[b]But  it is willful blindness to ignore the fact that  AA kids from HIH/highly educated households aren't subject to a different set of temptations/pressures in the typical DCPS school as opposed to white kid in DCPS.[/b]  White kids may be bullied because of their race, [b]the AA kids are bullied for being "bougie"[/b] (sp?).  [/quote]

Being bullied for "acting bourgeois" is what happened to me when I attended DCPS along with the racist taunts about being biracial.  The best decision that my mother ever made was to enroll me into a private school.  I was able to thrive and to excel in a supportive learning environment.  I didn't have to worry about the sexually aggressive boys bothering me, students disrupting classes, students disrespecting the teachers, and the anti-intellectual crowd harassing students who didn't have that street mentality.  Some students would actually get upset at me because I was excelling and they were failing.  It's like they wanted me to fail along with them.  There are plenty of  negative pressures and a great level of disdain towards AA students from HIH from the lower socio-economic AA's in DC.  I'm not sure where this attitude comes from, but it's not just in DCPS either.  It's heavily present in the DC culture as well.   There is a deep provincial attitude that is difficult to break within DCPS and  within DC period.

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