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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread has been very helpful for me, as well. My daughter is an ethnic minority and I am concerned that, simply by virtue of there not being many kids in the school that are of other races/ethnicities, she will feel out of place. Think we will focus our search in other neighborhoods that feed into schools with a bit more diversity. [/quote]

What if she just learned to treat people as individuals?  Would that be so bad?  If there were more minorities would her "place" be to associate with them rather than with other children? [/quote]

As a transracial adoptive parent, I can tell you that this is a very typical white response (said as a white person myself).  It's nice in theory but does not necessarily play out in practice.  Step back and think about how many people react here to S Arlington schools (or to the number of Asians at TJ).  People in public give off a nice progressive accepting vibe but underneath, things aren't so rosy.  I don't think that a non-white or multiracial family should avoid Nottingham and other schools like it, but it's not so simple and it's not so easy being so obvious and visible as a minority.[/quote]

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