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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh christ - I am an upper middle class white lady who went to school in upper middle class white suburbia. There was PLENTY of wasted time in every classroom of my childhood taken up with pain in the ass kids - WHITE wealthy kids. I constantly had teachers who had to deal with these kids to the detriment of all the other kids. This happens everywhere, not just 90% FARMS schools. I know my story is just an anecdote but we are way over obsessing about how the brown kids harm our little special white snowflakes aren't we! Way to blame the browns though. If only we could get them all out of 1) neighborhood, 2) city, 3) country. [/quote]

Growing up, I spent several years in a 99% FARMS inner city school and then we moved across the country to a wealthy 90% white suburban school.  And yes, there are pain-in-the-ass wealthy white snobs, spoiled brats, drinking, coke-snorting and bullies, it is a WALK IN THE PARK compared to what I dealt with in an inner city school - the issues at my inner city school were far far worse - gangs, drug dealing, weapons, fights, arrests, pregnancies, knifings, rapes, dropouts, teachers getting attacked, all-out brawls involving dozens of students.  This was a regular, daily thing in my inner city school, and I still have some of the scars to show for it - whereas it was rare and shocking for any of this kind of thing to ever happen in suburbia.  The wealthy white suburb was a peaceful idyll in comparison.  If you think you know it all based on your ideas of "upper middle class white suburbia" and its "problems", then you don't know squat, lady.[/quote]

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