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[quote=Anonymous]I'm white and I know parents personally at Eliot-Hine MS and Eastern HS. Not claiming to know all of them but, yes, they welcome white parents. Like all of us (white parents), I'm sure they're asking themselves what it means, how to cope, how to communicate, what tools to put in place to not see the balance tip from the flight of one group to the flight of another but to build true community. Many of them come from elementary school backgrounds where they went from seeing white parents bypass their school with their nose up in the air to parents waiting in line to get in.
My best guess from about the last couple of comments is that they are coming neither from Eliot-Hine nor from Eastern parents but from (a) poster(s) who just has it in it for these schools. Maybe because Eastern was declared beyond repair at some point, maybe because (s)he has a gripe with a parent next door, maybe because (s)he feels that another Ward isn't getting the same attention, maybe because of bad blood still circulating from teacher layoffs, school closings and mergers (including Hine into Eliot, which not everybody was happy about), because DCYOP moved from Coolidge to Eastern, and maybe because of past wounds that indeed never heal. May God help you find peace.[/quote]

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