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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in 22207 for awhile as a child and as an adult I have worked in an elementary school with similar demographics for quite a few years, in different grade classrooms throughout the school.

While I have seen the phenomenon of students being the only, or one of only two, students of color in a classroom, I have never seen or heard about students of color being treated the way the OP describes.  I am not saying it couldn't happen, but I am very confident that if such deplorable behavior happened it would be nipped in the bud immediately by staff and admin.  Immediately.  It would not be tolerated for five minutes, once it was known.

The only way this behavior could continue would be if the student did not report, or the parents did not raise hell about it.  Hard to imagine either scenario in my experience.

While I would have tough time deciding whether to send my child to a school where they were such a small minority (if I were a minority, which I'm not) I would not have a tough time dealing with any situation in which my kid was being treated badly for any reason, especially racism.

I also think it is unfair to characterize the families in 22207 as a group to be avoided simply because they are white and UMC.  That's a form of racism itself, obviously.[/quote]

I don't think you quite understand what racism means. [/quote]

You're right. It's closer to bigotry and bias.[/quote]

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