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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are AA and IB for Wilson and that's why we went private. Lots of our friends did the same thing.[/quote] And the irony is at private schools, any high SES child of color counts as diversity! This is the problem - in order to make Wilson better for everyone, they would have to lower the FARMS rate of 37% (Deal is only 23%). But they cannot do that because it would basically make the school too white. Lots of high SES parents feel comfortable with Deal, but not Wilson. And as a parent of children of color, I completely get that. And it is completely different from having hippy dippy parents who send you somewhere where you are the "only" which is lunacy no matter what color the "only" is. But try getting called an oreo every day and being in much more danger from students who are your same race than the white kids are from those races, and then you have gone from hippy dippy and miserable to dangerous. So again, just wanted white people who posted that it was just as bad as white parents of high SES not wanting to expose their kids to kids (presumably of color) of lower SES, who were claiming it is the same kind of prejudice to understand that it is not, it comes from a completely different place, and can lead down a much darker road. And I'm sorry, if you are one generation removed there is no way in hell you would give your kid the temptation of going back there or expose them to the kind of harassment they would experience when they don't. Let them discover their cultural roots and ethnic identity at a high ranking college, where they can meet those kinds of kids and be educated by them, not influenced or threatened by them. And maybe even help them out academically. That is what I did.[/quote]
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