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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sorry for not being more clear. if any of you had children of color you would probably understand, but a place where a child of color would feel welcome and not be the only child of color in her class. i agree, we should be beyond this but sadly we are so not in america. i am sure WIS is a good place but i was wondering about other schools. and yes, i taught at st. patrick's and i saw first hand how they treated the Black children there but that's for another post.[/quote]

Really? That makes me sad. I mean that, for the children's sake.[/quote]

Oh, for pete's sake, get over yourself OP. How they "treated" the black children? Did they single them out and make them sit in the closet? Please do elaborate.

You are full of it and you know it. Frankly, I feel sorry for your child. who obviously has a parent who thinks her best shot in life is to perpetrate decades-old stereotypes as a means of getting ahead.[/quote]

Hmmm. I find your post offensive and I am neither OP nor black. Why assume its a means of getting ahead? You sound ignorant. There are subtleties - assuming black children are not smart, or will be troublesome, or not bothering to pick them when they have their hands up, assuming they are in the wrong in a kiddie spat, assuming their backgrounds or cultural milieu is inferior.  I went to privates and Ivy's all my life and so do my children and we see it at all levels - from K to college. It is the assumptions and subtleties that sting - and because some of my friends are so conscious of NOT assuming these slights are due to race they have found all sorts of reasons but often they have reluctantly and sadly come to the realization that it is race - and these are successful, driven people who use no excuse to "get ahead".[/quote]

+1000

We have experienced this as well.  I feel it from the teachers and some of the families.  My kid is very kind, caring and shares and this is the way others describe him.   I had families ask me directly if I'm on FA and are not included in certain events.  I know the teachers thought that we were on FA and they were surprised when we challenged them on certain things.  We weren't on FA so we didn't feel powerless. They even apologized.  It is much more subtle at my other kids school but I can tell you that our kids are much more likely to get notes homes saying how we didn't use kind words to a friend or something about our tone.  How our child made a sensitive child cry but if my child cries then my child needs thicker skin.  We will probably leave the school but I'm not sure if our alternatives are better.  [/quote]

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