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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP,
We are also an AA family of a rising junior, DD. We are having a positive experience at Wilson. No major complaints and my DD feels supported and is doing very well academically. I think the key is a strong peer group of kuds who want to acheive and have similar interests. There are cliques at wilson based on interests - the drama/theater kids, the newspaper kids, the sciency kids, the activist kids and some kids cross mulitiple cliques. Its not perfect but i know my dd so far has made the most of her time there.

If you raised kids right with some sense of dignity and manbers, they arent all of a sudden going to turn into  the wild, loud kids you see after school. I think as parents we sell ourselves short on this point.[/quote]

I only hear great things about the experience AA girls have at Wilson.  As the mother of an AA son, I'm not worried about him falling into the bad crowd or suddenly going wild.  He won't.  I am worried about the constant pressure from that crowd for him to join them.  It will be torture for him and I was hoping that that was starting to change.[/quote]

I'm the PP above with a girl. And i feel you on this. I always try to imagine how it might be different if I had a boy.

As far as integration of higher achieving groups, my DD is in an integrated peer group but [b]most of her friend group is white/mixed race.[/b] The kids at Wilson talk about this alot and as a result the Principal starting hosting conversations about race relations at the school. It's a complicated issue but not unlike the real world we all live in. [/quote]

I'm a PP with a young child (girl) zoned for Wilson.  This is what I was afraid of, although not surprised.  Not the end of the world, but I'd prefer if my kid is not in a majority AA school where most of the high-achieving kids are white.  Nothing wrong with having friends of all backgrounds, but just sort of unfortunate if my child would be one of the only AA faces in that group.

So where do the rest of the high-achieving black kids all get siphoned off to?  Latin?  Privates?[/quote]

We are an AA family also zoned for Wilson. There was a pretty helpful and detailed thread about this last year. I'll try to find it. From what I gathered, there are a lot that go private (St John is a popular one). Some of my AA neighbors go to Banneker, Dematha, STA, Maret, Gonzaga, McKinley, SWW in addition to Wilson. We have a boy and are considering all of the above. It is a great concern, wouldn't be so much with a girl. Sad, but true.[/quote]

Why is Wilson fine for your daughters, but not your sons?  This is not just directed to the PP, but to everyone who has responded this way?[/quote]

PP with a girl. You see what is happening in the news. Black boys get targeted and nit in positive ways. Many AAs with means choose a different route beacause black are often treated differently. As i said before if i had a boy, i might have run to St Albans or St johns.

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So why are AA girls treated better at Wilson?  I really don't understand.  If someone (teacher/admins/other students) is a bigot, won't they treat all AA students poorly?[/quote]

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