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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids were in a school district that's 75% POC and largely poor. We were zoned to one of the best elementary schools in the district, which happened to be nearly 80% white and very wealthy thanks to all the woke folks who gentrified the area. Attendance at this elementary school is down significantly, class size is currently 12 kids to 1 teacher, which is better than some of the private schools. We left for private and I have zero guilt about it, just wish we didn't spend so much money on a house and had moved to the suburbs instead. I consider myself a moderate that leans liberal. [b]I'm also a first generation American. I don't owe POC anything. I do owe my children the very best education that I can give them. That's why my family came to this country, for the opportunities. I went to a specialized school in NYC and my class was majority Asian. Those parents played every trick in the book to give their children a quality education and I think that folks need to remember their first priority should be their own children. Always. Treat everyone decently, but don't feel obligated to even the playing field, focus on your own family. Stop treating other people as inferior beings in need of being saved.[/b] [/quote]

This. Immigrant here who moved to the US as a kid. My parents worked their asses off to give us a good life, pay for college, and all of that. I'm doing the same exact thing for my kids. We just got reassigned to one of the crappiest middle schools in our county and we fought hard against it and the liberal woke people who would do the same thing if it happened to them called us racists, elitists, blah blah blah. We were told that our presence there would make a big difference in the school to reduce the achievement gap.  Now that we're there and doing what we can to help- joining the PTA, volunteering because no one else would, etc., we're being told by the same liberal woke people not to act like saviors. The hypocrisy is a joke. You can't win. At the end of the day, only one thing matters- my first responsibility is to my children and I will continue to provide them with every resource that I can so that they can do well in school and I won't feel guilty one bit about it.  While DL has been fine, once it's over we will reassess once my kid has to physically be in the school and depending on that, it may lead to us pulling her out of there.  [/quote]

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