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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in an area where white kids, like mine, are the minority in the school, although my immediate neighborhood is predominately white. These have been schools with high percentage of FARMS students, as well. My kids who are now in high school, have never complained about being the minority, nor have they ever had a lack of friends. In fact, I often usually have idea what ethnic background the classmates they talk about are until I actually meet them. There is a lot kids from different cultures can learn about one another, and my kids do not have prejudices against kids who are a different color or race. The kids at their schools also have been accepting of each other -- there has never been pressure to having the right clothes, or teasing about glasses or braces, or many of the pressures to conform that I experienced in my school years.

There are good and bad kids at every school, and wealth does not play a role in that. After years of working with children in the schools, I can tell you that some of the kids from the most modest backgrounds have been the most appreciative, well-mannered children, by far.

I never realized how scared a lot of people are about people who are different than them, until I started visiting these forums; it is very sad.

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I agree with everything you said completely. I also agree with the PP a few posts earlier who had the two takeaways from this discussion that mean black kids at one school automatically mean all black kids are mean and that poor people have different (read: bad) values than wealthy people. Sad commentary.[/quote]

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