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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Nice White Parents podcast is helpful on paradigm setting.

Yes, go to your local schools.

No, don’t act like you are a “pioneer” or own or direct them just because you are part of the class with money, ability to donate or fundraise, etc.

Act like you’re joining a group project that needs effort but NOT a new boss! Be helpful not screamy. Don’t show up and then try to create a new magic cohort for your child on day 2. Join, reach out, etc.[/quote]

Why would I choose to do this exactly?[/quote]

In the podcast you’d do it because of .... resource scarcity. You’d do it because you couldn’t get into another school and needed a place for your kid.

I actually have seen plenty of folks here that valiantly tried this approach either due to lottery strikeout or strong almost martyristic belief in traditional public schools, and grow weary after a few years and bow out. I think, in other words, this has been done. When it succeeds it draws, shocker, more white kids to the school and you end up gentrifying the school anyways, think Hill. Everyone is mad either way of course.

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