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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Jeff, the concept of "hidden gems" is the topic of an entire episode of the Integrated Schools podcast. I commend it to you (and others here):

https://integratedschools.org/podcast/ep-6-the-hidden-gem/[/quote]

Here is a summary of the episode:

[quote]There are lots of great schools without many white kids, however, when white parents start to integrate a global majority school because they think they’ve found a hidden gem, it can lead in some troubling directions. Anna from LA (you may remember her from Ep 1) joins us to discuss the problems that arise when we come to integration just looking for a hidden gem. We touch on the narrative around what makes a “good” school, and we discuss how the Hidden Gem story encourages resource hoarding and can pave the way for colonizing.[/quote]

I thought the earlier poster was exaggerating, but I guess not. So, I'm out. Clearly nothing I do will ever be right.
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We picked our kids ES as a "hidden gem" and bragged about it that way to others, I'm sure many times.

The points brought up about the pitfalls of that mentality are not wrong.  At least in our case I learned something from the discussion.

There are many things we've grown up learning as "good liberals" (yeah, I'm making assumptions here) that are actually pretty rotten.  I don't mind critique along those lines. In fact, I welcome it so I can learn from it.[/quote]

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