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Not true. A visit to any racially diverse school's cafeteria will show you that this doesn't happen. Children/teens gravitate towards others "like them." Did you attend college in the US? Did you befriend people of varied cultures, races, nationalities? If so, then there's a great way to teach your children about being comfortable with others who don't look like them. Visit your friends or have them visit you. Privates aren't 100% white. Go out of your way to befriend students who aren't white (sorry, but I'm making an assumption that you are white). Invite them and their families over. Sometimes all it takes is one or two good friends from a particular race, ethnicity, or religion to help you accept the entire group. You can learn to be comfortable around a variety of people, just start with the people at your child's school, in your neighborhood (again, even upper NW isn't 100% white).[/quote]

Honestly, it's hard to know where to start here.  In a racially diverse school, kids share classes with kids who are different from them, even if the cafeteria will look somewhat (not entirely) segregated.  There is a great deal of exposure to low-SES kids in diverse schools.  In fact, many kids will have at least a few low-SES friends, even if they don't cross over to different cliques in the cafeteria.

Then after arguing that everybody self-segregates, this PP comes up with the counter-intuitive recommendation that we all reconnect with the minority friends from our college days that the PP says we never had, so that ... I guess our kids can meet the kids of these re-established minority friends the PP says we never had in the first place?  Finally, it's been pointed out many times here and elsewhere that minorities at DC private schools are upper middle or upper class -- this isn't real socio-economic diversity.  [/quote]

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