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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ NP.  Glad you turned out ok.  Most of kids I knew with that type of background are in jail and/or dead.  Face it.  You wouldn't want a kid like that in your kid's class especially if you moved to JKLMM to get away from that.  [/quote]

Thank you very much.  My dh grew up in a situation similar to the poster who told me to STFU or go to private school, with two differences - the first is that he did have one strong figure in his life, my blessed mother-in-law.  The second is that he was always well behaved, not like the AA kid I am referring to, probably due to his mother and his grandmother - strong AA role models.  The third is we can't afford private school and go ahead, call us oreos, (I got that a lot being the only AA in a room of whites most of my life until I went to college), call us whatever.

But have some respect for the fact that although my parents made it to the middle class last generation, his did not, and we are not putting our kids in a school like Wilson where they might discover the wrong kind of roots or adopt the wrong kind of attitudes.  They can find whatever roots they want once they are in good colleges (and yes, those colleges could be primarily historically AA and that would be fine with us).  So would stepping and fraternities.

DC1, who is now being exposed to a lot of that at the very good (read Latin or Basis) charter school they are at, is old enough to have the sense to see the difference between our family and others, and hangs with the smart minority kids, be they Spanish or AA.

In fact, maybe having this AA OOB badly behaved kid was a gift from God for us - because my dh got to explain that he grew up with a lot of kids like that, and they are all either dead, in jail, or were having babies at 13 (no lie - he ran into one of them).  But it was not a gift to anyone else's education.  And that is my point.  For whatever reason, principals have more power over getting IB kids to shape up or ship out.  This kid would do neither, and my kid (and all the other kids) paid for it in time lost with their teacher and some personal harassment and public humiliation - one AA kid to another - mine.

My kid also had another kid tell my kid that he was smarter than my kid last week because "I am white and you are not."  Don't know if THAT has anything to do with the badly behaved AA OOB kid in the class, but it sure as heck don't help.  We addressed that issue tactfully with the father of the kid, whose first response was "my kid is not white either" (he is foreign) and his second was that he would talk to his child.  If there are no parents to talk to, don't know how you really handle these issues.............[/quote]

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