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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks 9:55 and 10:56! This is a conversation worth having! I'm not sure I understand the previous post but could it be saying that some middle-class AA families may be staying clear of options that are perceived as being threatened by a white "take-over"? I'd think that could apply to Hardy MS but have my serious reservations that that's what's keeping those families away from Eliot-Hine. Their more subtle understanding of class divisions within the black school community is a better candidate I think. So I'm still fishing for an answer on how to address that. What is it middle-class AA families need to give it a go?

On the "savior complex", I wanted to add that I think there are two different complexes white parents may display in predominantly black schools. The "savior complex", if I get the concept right, would be more common among the Birkenstock wearing social justice type. What you seem to allude to is the "know-it-all better complex", which I (incidentally white) am running up against as well. Give this a laugh: Is it possible, just a possibility, that some white parents may develop an interest in black schools to get away from it? I may need to seek a psychiatrist's answer to this but would meanwhile welcome some insight.
Also, in seeing this play out on the ground, my impression is that school-sensitive black families (to avoid the middle-class stereo-type for once) often have the same complaints as their white counterparts. They just go about addressing them in a very different way, less whiny and more bilateral maybe. So could there be more opportunities than we think there are to get our act together on Eliot-Hine?[/quote]

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