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[quote=Anonymous]What school zone Op?

In all seriousness, most of us are choosing to live in this area because it’s diverse, not despite it. We like the school Chinese Lunar New Year’s celebrations and getting diawali gifts from neighbors (and great pho!!, speaking of a lunch craving of a cold day).   It makes our kids lives richer and their worlds larger.

The biggest problem your kids might face Op is a white dad who comes into the community with a lawyer on speed dial.  That’s very off putting in a community that prides itself on multicularism. Especially when it’s the white guy doing it.  Not wanting your kids around racial nastiness includes not wanting your kid around the guy with a lawyers on speed dial searching every interaction your kids have with non-Asians for signs of racial nastiness.  Because kids will get stuff wrong or ask questions that seem insensitive.  That’s inevitable in such a multicultural place.  If your husband, a white guy,  leads with “racism” and not “mistake we should correct so it doesn’t happen again” that’s going to be a problem.  Because he’s a white adult making the same assumptions he’s accusing white kids of making. [/quote]

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