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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow...thank you so much for your honest feedback. I know that this can be a touchy subject for some but at the end of the day - its important to be honest. Yes, we are an AA family that are highly educated and want our son to blossom and be surrounded by (hopefully) other like-minded parents. Race/ethnicity is definitely not the only factor - obviously we are looking for enthusiastic teachers, high performing school, etc. but I'm just not comfortable with my son being the only AA in a class. However, I hate to say it but a lot of the predominantly AA schools are also low performing - so its a catch 22. I just want my little fella to be comfortable interacting with all walks of life and not feel out of place because he doesn't see anyone that looks like him in his class. [/quote]

I work at Marshall HS and while we don't have a large AA population, our population is fairly diverse with many Asians (SE Asian, Korean, etc), Hispanics, Whites, and African Americans.  While I would say that your son could potentially be the only AA student in class in elementary, it is unlikely he would be the only minority student in the class. We have an IB program here, and I am always impressed by the diversity of high achieving students at graduation/taking IB exams, etc.  It really is a great mix of kids.   Not sure about all the feeder elementaries into Marshall, but I am sure you could look them up.  [/quote]

My Somalian neighbors, who are black as night, think that they are different and better than AAs.

It really isn't the same. [/quote]

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