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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually the point of the AA parents at Wilson thread was about race -- and specifically how teachers and administrators might perceive their children and hold their kids to different standards. [/quote]

That's not what I took away from the other thread at all -- seems to me lots of the concern from black parents was about whether their black sons would be mistreated and/or led astray by other black students from rough neighborhoods.  A pretty clear consensus of black parents seemed to be that their sons were better off at either private schools (higher-income black families) or Banneker/Walls (lower income black families).  [b]There was some mention of concern about how teachers might perceive the students, but that was an afterthought. [/b] There also was a separate discussion about how these concerns are different from black girls.  It was altogether an excellent and illuminating discussion.

No doubt those are all valid concerns black parents might have.  White parents might have a whole variety of different concerns about safety and learning, all of which are just as valid.  Where this whole discussion goes off the rails is when one or two posters here decide that any viewpoints white parents have must be rooted in racism.  That broad brush treatment is frankly offensive and divisive.

I can't decide whether those posters who keep accusing white parents are just trolls, or if they're actually the racists themselves.[/quote]

Different poster.  I agree with most of what you're saying but concern about how teachers perceive a black male student is not an afterthought.  At all.  It's so much part and parcel of the decision about schools that the posters there probably didn't feel the need to spell it out.  The only difference between low SES and high SES black parents on that score is the number of options available to them.

As this thread demonstrates, perception is everything.  There may be only one or two trolls calling white parents racist, but there are also a few on the other side dismissing racism as moot.  It has the same offensive effect.
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It time to put this liberal bs to bed.  Please prove that teachers in DCPS have a different view of black male students vs other students.  I'll wait.....[/quote]

Does that ever work for you?[/quote]

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