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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black. [/quote]

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant.  The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.[/quote]

OP here.

The target audience of this post, specifically, was white families of PK students who are apprehensive about their white children being in a majority minority school for social reasons. This is something that comes up on almost every post about a majority minority school: what will the social experience of a white child be in a majority minority classroom? What sorts of issues will children have in those situations, etc.

For what it's worth, I talked to DD about this last night. I asked her if there was anything she'd noticed about school, whether she was different from other kids in some way. She said, "Well, a lot of them speak Spanish. I wish I spoke more Spanish." I told her we could work on that if she wanted to, and she was excited. I asked her if she'd noticed that she was the only white kid in her class, and she said yes. I asked her what she thought of that, and she kind of rolled her eyes and was like, "Mom, they're just my friends. Some of them are black and some of them are Hispanic. But they're just my friends." I told her that there were people who wondered if things felt different for her because she's white and the rest of the class isn't and asked if anyone had ever teased her because of that before, and she said no, nothing like that had ever happened. Then she launched into a monologue about a problem she had with a boy in her class last year (who is in her class this year too), and ended the story with, "But it's not because he's black. It's because he has bad behavior. White kids have bad behavior too."[/quote]

OP, sorry but the way you titled and framed this thread is deeply disingenuous. If most/ all students are Hispanic, some of them will surely be white--as white (if not more) than your DD.

So what's the deal exactly.[/quote]

I think this was actually addressed very early in the thread. [b]I don't think that any reasonable person would consider my school to be 60% white, 30% black and 10% other races[/b] (including non-Latino white people). While you are technically correct that Latino students are classified as "white", I think you are missing the point, which is that the people I hoped to answer questions for were the non-Latino white parents who are apprehensive about sending their non-Latino white child to a school with a student body that is 60% Latino, 30% black, and 10% other races.

Also, you're not sorry, so don't preface your comments with "sorry." [/quote]

Surprise surprise:

This Hispanic parent believes that, if your school is "60% white, 30% black and 10% other races," well, your school is exactly "60% white, 30% black and 10% other races."

Please don't manipulate facts, trying to coopt us with "cute titles" into your very narrow white vs. non-white agenda. Open a thread titled "AMA: Why my daughter loves her Hispanic-majority school"[/quote]

Thanks. Next time I open an AMA on DCUM (which will be never), I will be sure to use exactly the words that you request, though I will substitute the word "Hispanic" for "Latino" since "Hispanic" excludes non-Spanish speaking Latin Americans. Is that okay?[/quote]

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