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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, totally agree. I would venture that the reason that the AA parents of the kids in the upper school feeder schools have standards and expectations for academics and social environment in middle school thaat are decidely HIGHER than their white counterparts.  I think many white parents think they would "take a chance " because one way or another their kid will be just fine. Plus they get a bit of pride from being the open minded, risk takers, game changers of the community.  These attitudes come with the privileges that come with being white in our society/city.  An AA parent faces a whole other set of assumptions and complications.  Not least of which is the danger that your child will get in with the wrong crowd, lose interest in academics or be unfairly pigeon holed by teachers if not "protected" by being a different race than the majority[/quote]

Very well put!!

As a white parent, I'm really in no position to disagree but I would like to throw into the mix of arguments that shielding one's child from that reality - until when? high school? college ? the workplace? - is an asset either. What I would rather see is that these concerns are addressed in a permanent dialogue that allows everybody to better understand the subtleties of race and socioeconomic realities in an urban context. I could have used a lot of that myself, much earlier than it dawned on me. If this is brought to bear in open, honest, and well mediated conversations on all ends, we'd all be in a better place. And what better place and time to tackle this is there than here and now? 
There are tools out there to help accomplish this (MoCo I think it is uses Community Circles).[/quote]

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