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[quote=Anonymous]9:55 here and you're right there's a common goal.  Can Eliot-Hine be the school of innovation when it comes to a unified diverse group?  Who knows?  It will take many willing bodies but that old adage of once bitten and twice shy has evolved.

We all know that pre-k through 3rd grade had its own issues (the first negative bite), then 3rd through 5th grade had those issues (the second negative bite) and here we are at middle-school and the shyness (or most cases the skepticisms).  The aloofness is magnified ten-fold and even the anxiety compounded.  Combination of it all can just be enough to put those who are a minority but the majority on edge.

Talking about seeking psychiatric advice have you noticed the drama among the AA community when it comes to charter and tradtional schools.  Then to add the superficial nonsense of, what is your economical class status in regards to a free public educaton?  Which can lead into the argument that if you don't make enough, how dare you send your child to a public school.  Which can lead to the other argument if I don't agree with the financial enhancements then I am the one labled as the racist.  Then in my defense but in my AA dialect I respond "how did we get there, Boo!?!  The rest is negative history.

How many are guilty of these two questions; who's your child and what do you do?  The AA response is, my child is Tamika and I work for McDonalds'.  The white person response, oh, that is nice I've always wanted to work for McDonnell Douglas myself.  The AA response no I work for McDonald's, then the painful silence and instantly a class distinction.  I know that scenario is a stretch but you see where I am going, hopefully?

Then there's that sense of solidarity that, we as AA parents get from the AA staff when they truly know, if they can pit certain groups against each other that results will be favorable.

I have stated earlier that the foremer Chancellor stated to a group of AA in regards to Eastern, that she didn't have time to worry about the stroller brigade,  Well those words are just as strong as when Romney said that he didn't worry about the poor.  All I can say the first statement garnered conversation and second one is offering an explanation.

I love the reference to the Birkenstock crew.  Because as we write, those who own them have probably thrown them out into the trash.  Friday's trash pick-up will have an abundance of Birkenstock shoes in the garbage.  LOL!!![/quote]

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