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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]"Yeah, your views on this will change in a hurry when dc are in school. I was all for diversity until Jalonte from the Hood started explaining to dd in first grade how people get arrested and smoke crack pipes."[/b]

OP, does your current neighborhood have people like this in it?  No amount of location could make up for living in a neighborhood where this is the prevailing wisdom, IMHO.[/quote]

Um. No. We ran as fast as we could to North Arlington.

I'm being a little flip, but I have to be honest -- I didn't like the attitudes my children were developing about black kids, who were always the ones in trouble, misbehaving, and otherwise self-entitled. This was in ACPS, by the way. My kids were learning from a very young age to associate bad behavior with skin color. It was really troubling.

Now, they are in an environment where education and achievement is universally valued. Yes, it's more lilly white, but they're not developing negative stereotypes. Instead, their exposure to children of other races happens more at church or other environments where values are more consistent.

I've lived in this are nearly 20 years. The ONLY high school I"ve ever heard of that does a decent job of genuinely integrating races and socioeconomic classes is Edison HS in Springfielf, VA. At the rest, they tend to self-segregate.[/quote]

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