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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I think for many white families, it's not about SES -- it really is about color. They want a critical mass of white children so their kids won't stick out as the only white ones.

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I would have been concerned about my DC being the only non-Polish Catholic kid at a school in Baltimore, even had none of them been low SES Polish kids.

I realize blacks have more experience being "the only one in the room", and may resent white's concern about being the only one in the room.  But I'm not sure its fair to consider that concern to be racism.    [/quote]

In my experience, people can be sympathetic if it's explained as, "I'd prefer to have a few more white kids so my kid isn't the only one." But all too often, from what I've seen, having additional white children is described as "turning the school around" or some similar phrase that implies *improving* the school, as though it's self-evident that more white kids=a better school.

I think it's THAT attitude that really stuck in Cobbs' craw -- the idea that there's something inherently less desirable about a classroom of black children, regardless of their academic performance.

I saw her respond to comments along those lines at a PTA event, and one line really stuck out for me: "We *love* our fifth graders." From what I saw, she felt very protective of the kids at her school (even the ones whose parents annoyed her), and I think she felt hurt on her 5th graders' behalf that someone would walk past their classrooms and find them lacking because there weren't any white faces.[/quote]

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