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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who had kids at EMS, TPMS, AEHS, and MBHS, and just wanted to note that my nonbinary kid only ever encountered bullying from US-born kids, so I'm a little leery of this narrative about immigrants.

While it might be true that some of the families in MCPS (particularly in the eastern part of the county) come from religious backgrounds, the kids are usually pretty good at code-shifting. At home, they are diligent and Orthodox or Catholic or whatever, but at school they are just the same mix of theater kids, math kids, jocks, and science nerds as anyone else. [/quote]

Yeah, you can invalidate my kid's experiences all you want, but they are real. Many of the kids may be American born, but they are growing up with very conservative religious backgrounds and their families are from conservative cultures (at least as far as LGBTQ people are concerned). Of course many kids can, "code-switch," and respect differences. On the other hand, not all of them can or do.

However, I agree that there are plenty of mean white kids out there and in fact that's why I brought up how hostile a lot of (overwhelmingly white women) staff at a past W feeder school I worked at were to LGBTQ staff and students. [/quote]

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