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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]hi- first to the parents of AA kids that are posting here - thank you for opening a dialogue and sharing - I am learning a a lot from your posts and feel the frustration and fear and it sucks.  It would be wonderful if there were parent groups connected with the schools were parents and kids and teachers could come together and dialogue and support and learn and grow together.  We are "white" and I have younger kids and we would love to go to Wilson- our oldest is in 2nd grade. [b]I wanted to ask a candid question - what is actually going on with the "kids from sw" and how does that really play out with the school overall?[/b] I don't have too many friends with HS aged in DC kids and curious. I went to a school that was 65% white, 35% black. Mixed income situation for all of us- none too high above middle class. The kids mixed especially in sports and certainly in the classrooms and while there was occasionally racial tension including fights in school and after school - there was some great school spirit that kept us together.  There were drugs like pot and pills, cocaine! and alcohol and that was not a black or white thing. No metal detectors or experiences of weapons in school.  No gangs but there was some bullying and ganging up on someone but not based on race.  Curious about the feeling of the community in Wilson and how things play out by race and gender. Someone mentioned gangs of kids in this post or another - what does that actually mean? And the word thug came up.  What is it like for the kids at Wilson?[/quote]

I'm one of the AA PPs zoned for Wilson.  I can't answer your other questions re: high school since my kids are younger than yours.  Re: the bolded, I don't actually know anyone in that part of the city (far from my neighborhood), but if you search prior Wilson posts, I've seen several that mention shenanigans in the school and after school in the Tenleytown area  (e.g., in the Chick fil a).  I think some educated AA families worry that their kids will get grouped with the troublemakers and therefore treated differently by staff, as if they are also troublemakers, just based on their skin color.  And I think a subset worry about negative influences from the troublemakers.

And it should be pointed out that not every kid from SW or wherever will be a troublemaker--it's usually a few knuckleheads that give everyone a bad rep.[/quote]

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