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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is a great teaching moment for you and your child. If you take the time to learn about why students from these disadvantaged backgrounds need such a program, you can explain it to your kid. After all, people of color are forced to have very serious conversations with their kids about things like police brutality and racial profiling, so your kid will survive.

Please do some self-reflection because you may be passing down your unconscious (or conscious) prejudice to your child.[/quote]

Not OP, but the issue is assuming that kids who are Black and Hispanic come from “disadvantaged backgrounds” and assuming that White and Asian kids do not, when there are some very privileged Black and Hispanic kids in this area and some White and Asian kids, particularly Asian, who aren’t advantaged at all.  I’d hope a parent of a disadvantaged White or Asian kid would find a way to express their child’s interest in a program like YS, if appropriate, and would not be turned away, but some might simply infer from the background materials that their kids aren’t welcome. [/quote]

The program identifies kids that could benefit, so yes, a white or Asian kid who is economically disadvantaged will likely be identified. I know one of those kids (white).[/quote]

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