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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. I hope all the people so “worried” about being at a school with a low white student population are doing everything in their power to bring back affirmative action at the college level. Black and Latine students have been dealing with this forever. And let me tell you, white students at elite schools are NOT kind to students of color. People really shouldn’t be surprised by majority Black public schools in a city known as Chocolate City.[/quote]

I would not want to be the only black student at an otherwise white school. I would also not want to be the only white student at an otherwise black school. That's all people are saying -- it would just be very hard to be the only person of a specific race at a school because it makes you visible in a way that is specifically hard on kids who have a strong desire to fit in. I absolutely favor affirmative action or whatever method works to ensure that black and latino students attending elite schools are not "onlies". But I also would not send my white kid to a high school with literally no other white kids because I think it would place a spotlight on her that I know she'd hate.[/quote]

My DC was the only white child in their kindergarten class - there were seven others in the grade but the other kids ended up in the other two rooms (3 in one and 4 in the other). School overall was 15% white, 10% Hispanic, rest Black. I didn’t really care at the beginning of the year, but there was definitely something to what the PP is saying as we had some really weird things happen. Lots of comments to DC about their skin, hair, eyes. Some overt racism like “my mom said I shouldn’t be friends with white people.” I felt the teacher (also white) held my child to a higher standard and it wasn’t fair to any of them.

The next couple years had the kids more dispersed and we didn’t have those types of issues as often or at all. [/quote]

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