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[quote=Anonymous]wow that is sad to hear that is happening at that age

my black sons preschool classmates were white, latino and asian and surprisingly for Southern PG he was one of a handful of black kids...they just love playing together...I don't even think they notice race and we definitely do not mention it at home.  It is his friend Roberto or Billy...not his white friend or latino friend.

I think being a minority white person in a diverse private school may be a better match...maybe minorities with similar SES/education level of parents.

I am black but similar concerned about sending my black children to a majority black or majority minority school because 1) that is just not the real world and 2) just because we share a complexion...we do not have a lot in common with many lower SES/lower educated/one parent household families that may be in a majority minority public school.   I live in Southern PG (for now) and every family that is similar to ours with respect to economic class/family structure/values about education/values about how you behave/highly educated parents that we have made friends with here are not planning to do or are not doing public school...so the similar situated black and latino and asian and white people who we have met in Southern PG are either moving or going private.  That kind of skews the public school experience of who is left in one direction.[/quote]

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