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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is mixed and in a very white middle school.  Her closest friends are all white, though she certainly knows several mixed/black kids at the school.  I think she kind of likes being different, but this year in particular, she has come home mentioning (I wouldn't say 'complaining') about a number of things-- people giving a lot of attention to her natural hair (I think she likes it at this point but it is 
 LOT of attention), and a weird situation where a teacher was I think interacting with my daughter in a fun way and then kind of whispering to my daughter's friends in a mock-making-fun-of-her kind of way, but the friends said what she said was racist.  They wouldn't tell her WHAT the teacher said, only that they found it racist.  Since they wouldn't tell her, and it's a teacher my daughter goofed around with during free periods at school in the past, it could well have been a lot of nothing, but daughter has mentioned it a few times so it maybe bothers her.

In sum, as far as I can tell, there has been no major, blatant problem, but a lot of small things that tell her she's different...

I actually sort of have the opposite fear-- not that she will face a really hard time at school, but that she will grow up in a cushy suburb and have to face some harsh realities when she leaves her bubble.[/quote]

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