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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My post ended up in the middle of the quote....

Out of school, you only hung out with middle class black kids? 
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I'm the PP you're asking, and the answer to your question is yes.  That is primarily who I felt the most comfortable with, so if I hadn't had the chance to have (sometimes forced) interactions with other types of kids at school, that would have been my entire experience growing up.[/quote]

So I imagine your circle of friends may be different now - and therefore - your children's experience different. Maybe not -- just asking -- don't you think your kids will get alot of diversity in their personal lives and the need for it at school may be less.[/quote]

Well, yes, I do have a more diverse circle of friends now (although not socioeconomically), but then again, my parents had a diverse circle of friends (I'm actually bi-racial) and I grew up in a diverse neighborhood.  Yet, during that middle school and high school period where all you want to do is find somewhere to fit it, I gravitated toward people who were the most like me.  If I had gone to a school of mostly black middle class kids, I don't know where I would have had the chance to have much interaction with people from different backgrounds.  Maybe my kids will have a similar experience, maybe they won't - but I do find that there's value in giving them the opportunity to interact with a wider variety of people than might be present within my own social circle or our neighborhood.[/quote]

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