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[quote=Anonymous]The media is hyper focused on the  behavior of wealthy white students when it can because a lot of the time, the wealthy parents sweep their progeny's bad behavior under the rug.  Society (including many W parents on dcum) seems to think that wealthy parents are "better" at parenting, so when you see a wealthy kid do bad stuff like this it's sort of magnified.  When a poor kid does bad things, its "typical" and obviously bad parenting.  When a rich kid does dumb things it's "out of the ordinary". These kids have a life of privilege so it's hard to understand why they would do these sh1tty things.

I am a parent in the RM cluster. JWMS Principal recently sent out an email about an incident similar to what happened at Whitman.  A student put on the student's personal social media account themself in blackface. I fully expected to see this on this forum or in the media, but I haven't seen anything yet.  So, yes, sh1tty things do happen in other schools, but the media is hyper focused on those who are privileged.  But, I'm betting that more stuff goes on in those wealthy schools than we realize because again, many of the wealthy parents manage to sweep the bad behavior under the rug.[/quote]

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