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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with 16:10.

Looking for 'diverse' schools doesn't mean there will be no racial animosity.  You fill find plenty.

Help your kids find kind, supportive friends (of any race) and don't worry about it.[/quote]
DP... true, but not being the *only* or just  a  handful is important, especially to a child.  [/quote]
Dp. In what world would this be the only mixed kid? I think OP does a terrible diservice BOTH in labling these schools as nondiverse out of her maternal protective fears for her kids AND in thinking diverse kids wouldn't eat them up. [b] I have found white kids can more accepting/more naive/less judgmental of my biracial child than the nonwhite ones.  [/b]Maybe not every one is nice but as a generality we have had no issues with it being about race. And I don't want to hear some crap about twenty year old comments that the parents endured, as if that wasn't a two way street too.  When your kid gets to school,  are the parents going to think well of you if they are already reading that you think they're bad news?  Geez.[/quote]

Agree completely.

I'm biracial and have found more acceptance from the white kids/white adults.  People of other races often have these 'expectations' of your race that seems to disappoint them if you don't fulfill.  Where as often white people don't seem to give a f(ck.  (i say that as a positive - they seem to more look at me as who I am, not choose me as worthy to talk to because I'm ethnic enough)[/quote]

Bingo![/quote]

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