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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't need to ask you anything, because I've lived your child's experience. I was the only white child in my class between 1st and 5th grade. From 1st to 3rd grade, it was no problem at all and I never really thought about it. In 4th and 5th grade, other girls began excluding me because I didn't speak Spanish and didn't have the same cultural heritage as them. Honestly, who knows, maybe kids will always find a reason to pick on each other at that age and it would not have mattered if there were other children of my race at my school - maybe kids just would have picked on me for something else. All that I know is that it wasn't the best of times, and it was good to move to a middle school where there was genuine diversity and all different types of kids.

OP here. Thank you for sharing your experience. I am really sorry that that happened to you. I had a similar experience, but I believe it was related to switching schools in 4th grade rather than any cultural differences. I think that kids will generally find something different to latch onto - in my case it was that I was new. I think that schools these days are better equipped to handle that kind of social issue than they were when I was a kid. Not all schools, obviously, but in general, we pay more attention than we used to to these issues.

The same thing is going to happen to your daughter when you pull the plug in 3rd. Just sayin'. [/quote]

I am the poster who was the only white child in her class and I did not write the response above.  I don't know if the same thing will happen to OP's daughter or not.  I don't necessarily think that school are better equipped to handle teasing or exclusion generally than they were when I was a kid.  One of my 3 kids has HFA, and he definitely gets teased.  But I can't speak to whether it would matter more if there were only one child of a certain race in a class today than when I was a kid.  I'd like to think things have changed in that regard, but I just don't know.[/quote]

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