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[quote=Anonymous]]I am not the PP you are quoting, but I have never seen a white parent on DCUM asking about sending their child to a school where white kids are only 5-10% of the school population. I have seen posts from parents who are scared to send their kids to a school where whites are less than the majority, and I do question that. But there is a huge difference between a child being one of 30-40% and a child being the only one in the class. [b]I don't recommend that experience for any young child - black, white, asian, whatever[/b].

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NP here.  My own African American child attended an MCPS elementary with only 2 other black students.  Because the school/MCPS/? seems to have a policy of "balancing" the classroom make-up and there were two classes per grade level, 1 of the the 3 black kids always ended up in a class by his/herself (including my child).  I haven't seen any evidence that my child (or the other 2) were harmed by the experience of being the only one or a pair of blacks in the class.  So I'm curious as to why you think this?  It seems to me that the [b]younger the child[/b], the less relevant race/lack of diversity has been to their school experience -- at least that has been my experience (i.e., while these kids bring diversity to their school, they are not [i]integrating[/i] it -- their experience is nothing that of Ruby Bridges, Little Rock 9, etc.).       [/quote]

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