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no. you don't have a fucking clue about race and racism and how inequality plays out in the US today. You think racism means putting on a white hood and calling people the n-word. so you put up an MLK quote in your gentrifier front yard, pat yourself on the back, and refuse to send your white child to school with the neighborhood kids. you're fucking the WORST and the reason I sometimes thing black ppl would seriously be better off voting republican because "liberal" whites truly don't give a shit and will kick anyone in the way of their kid.[/quote]

I'm white, and I refuse to send DD to PK3 in one of the two neighborhood schools. It's not because the kids are brown or "unprepared." I am foreign and tend to befriend foreigners, not white Americans, so DD's best friends are Asian and African. I am also one of the few white people at my job and genuinely like my coworkers. I avoid one of the IB school not because of race or SES (I've been a poor SAHM, so not one to judge in that dept.), but because of what I saw at the open house. Things like: if a child is spending too much time in one play corner, the teacher asks them to go try something else. Umm, if a child is immersed in play, coming up with new ideas and enjoying themselves, why have a rule that the teacher should interrupt the kid and make them go do something else? That flies in the face of everything I've read about ECE: that concentration and uninterrupted time are important for learning. That and the like turned me off, and I don't want DD spending long hours in that environment. I really do wish she could go to a neighborhood school, which is why we are on the wait list for the other IB.[/quote]

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