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[quote=Anonymous]I would NOT put my kids in this situation for MS or HS, having had that experience myself in ES and MS. ES was fine; MS was not. DD is at a majority "minority" school. Her closest friends are mostly similar SES but different races. I don't think from what I can tell that race has been an issue in making friends. The bigger challenge I think is that lower Great Schools school can often have fewer social opportunities (kids don't all play on the same sport team or have Girl Scouts, parents less inclined to request a playdate of you but willing to let their kid come for one, etc). So you need to be really proactive early on in setting up playdates. How late in ES is this? The latter it is, the harder to break in I think - again, not due to race issues but just since you have to work so hard to create the social opportunities and I gather from here that playdates with unknown kids are just a lot less common starting even in later ES grades.[/quote]
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