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This is truly offensive to me.

What do you think of me - a white female - who is always the minority in the classroom?  Should I hope that one day I'm not jumping off a bridge questioning why I spent many years at that diverse school?

It goes both ways.  I have had classes with only one white child who obviously felt out of the loop.  However, as an educated adult, I work on developing a safe atmosphere where learning is the main goal.

When I hear such ignorant statements I often question why more minorities don't go into teaching.  While our staff is growing more and more diverse, white females are still the majority.  But how many GOOD teachers who just happen to be white will want to try to fight such ignorant beliefs held by parents?  It's hard enough to keep young teachers in the profession, as many leave w/in the first 5 years.  But imagine how much harder it will be unless BOTH sides come to an agreement to stop perpetuating damaging stereotypes.

I am blown away by the ignorance on this board.

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I am neither of the posters you are quoting, but I don’t understand how you can call people relating their personal experiences of race and education a show of ignorance.  What stereotype were these posters perpetuating?  I believe the two previous posters whose exchange you quoted are both black, and as a fellow black parent struggling with the issue of race and raising my children, I sincerely appreciated their honest exchange of experiences and found nothing ignorant or offensive about it.  And it sounds like you are a teacher, so clearly, the jumping off the bridge comment was not aimed at you – the experience of a single minority student is obviously going to be much different than the experience of a teacher who happens to be a minority within the classroom.  The fact that you can’t grasp that makes me worry about your minority students.[/quote]

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