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[quote=Anonymous]Another Nottingham parent here.  I would like to see more diversity in the school.  I am frustrated by the (frequent, here and elsewhere) responses of people who don't want to live there just because it's not sufficiently diverse - if everyone selfselects away, it will never become more diverse.  It's not something that current families are doing, it's something that incoming families are choosing to avoid.  My son (white) has three best friends - one is biracial (AA and white parents), one has a mom from Bolivia and a white American dad, and one has parents from the Bronx (just kidding, I know New Yorker's aren't a different ethnic group!).  No, there are not a ton of non-white kids, but it's not like they don't exist and, more importantly, from what I've observed, the non-white kids aren't treated any differently.

Honestly, I'd say the bigger divide is SES.   We're a two income Fed family, and I sometimes feel like the "poor" family.  I know that's not true, but there are a lot of people who take more expensive trips, or wear fancier brands than we do.  While my kids haven't really noticed yet, I'm thinking that will be the issue I want to watch out for as they got older.  I don't want them to be snobs against people who have less than we do, and I don't want them to think that they're (really very nice) standard of living is somehow sub-par.[/quote]

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