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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, I'm new to this thread.  But from reading it, it seems like people didn't like the previous principal (Cobbs?) because she was black, and that people are glad that the new principal is white?[/quote]

*Some* people didn't like the previous principal, Cobbs, b/c they felt she wasn't "welcoming enough" to IB families, which they assumed was because the complaining families are white and Cobbs is black. Some of those people are glad that the new principal is white.

I observed Cobbs to be very friendly to many (if not all) white families; I do think she had a relatively low tolerance for any parent, black or white, who came across as entitled; there may have been a class aspect to this, I don't know.

I also think Cobbs heard a lot of talk from white parents about "sticking together" to create a future cohort of white kids in the upper grades, and I think she was deeply offended by the idea that a classroom of black children is a less desirable outcome than a classroom with white kids in it. I'm not sure she was good at getting past (or at least masking) her distaste for parents who made those statements.
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