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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would really hate to be that one white kid at one of those schools.  I imagine they are probably relentlessly singled out and teased.[/quote]

My child (who is Caucasian) is at Banneker, and we were having a conversation about this earlier today.  Being one of very few white kids is a non- issue.[/quote]

Being one of few is a non-issue, being the only one is very very hard.

Speaking as a brown person who was the only one growing up, as the parent of half-white kids who have been the only non-white kid in the room, and as the parent of kids at a school that was 10 percent white. First two were tough, last one is not an issue for the kids. Some parents are uncomfortable, but the kids were fine. [/quote]

This will probably be inflammatory but it's also true: it matter how different the outlier kid looks. And this is true whether you are talking about a black kid at a mostly white school or vice versa. Kids tend to fixate on appearance as a sign of similarity so the less contrast in skin tone and hair color the easier it is for the kid who is an only. This is also why greater diversity in the majority population can help too-- easier to be the one black kid in a school where the white kids have a variety of backgrounds, hair colors, skin tones, etc. than a school where everyone looks Nordic.

I know it's the third rail because it gets into colorism but kids who still don't not always understand all the politics just think a kid with curly dark hair and olive skin looks more "black" than a kid with very pale skin and very light hair. If the goal is fitting in sometimes that's enough.[/quote]

As someone who spent time on various towns as the only white kid in a school, it mattered a lot less the older I got [/quote]

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