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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a black parent, I don't have the luxury of expecting the school to do the heavy lifting in terms of core math and ELA.  Maybe little white kids can survive entering K with zero literacy or numeracy skills, but my little black boys wouldn't be taken seriously, nor would I as a responsible parent. Don't talk to be about "equity" when some of you want the "privilege" of sending your kids to school unprepared, notwithstanding the fact that you have the resources to do so.

No, the school shouldn't expect much from parents, but you should expect more from yourselves.

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White parents don't have the luxury either.  We were told by a black principal how because we supplemented at home/private therapies our child would not get the help at school they needed as they had other families who needed it more.  Racism goes both ways.  She'd boost up the black kids and ignore the white/hispanic/asian kids.  There is no equity.  We didn't have the privilege of getting school help and went into heavy debt to get our child the help they needed.[/quote]

I’m the PP. I didn’t blame “racism” and I don’t thing white teachers have it out for my kids. But the reality is that very few black boys are on the level academically and so it’s not surprising that institutions expect little of them, even if they don’t harbor racial animus towards them.  It’s that reality, not racism per se, that I have accommodate for — and it’s something we’d have to accommodate for at ANY school, save for a few select privates with a history of educating high performing black boys. Your unfortunate matter might very well be due to the racism of administration in your particular school, but that’s not what I was speaking of. And I hardly doubt that the black principal is doing much to “boost” the black kids, who I bet still perform abysmally. And trust me, it sounds like another school where I wouldn’t send my black sons because the same principal would probably be even more dismissive of our high-SES black family and expect us to accept it out of sense of racial solidarity. This is all way more complex and nuanced that you can appreciate. 
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