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PP here. I'm not dismissing the school - again, my kid is a decade away from even looking at high school. I am dismissing the idea that it is racist to be uncomfortable about being a 1 or 2% minority in a school or anywhere else. Would you call an AA parent racist because they were uncomfortable with the notion of sending their child to a school where they might be the only one of their race? Or what about sending your son to dance camp for a summer where he was the only male? That doesn't mean you think females are bad or dance is bad or white people are bad or whatever. It means you don't want your kid to feel like an outlier, which is particularly challenging in the teenage years. People have a natural, perfectly reasonable desire to find groups that they are familiar with - you know, it kept humans alive for millenia, so kind of hard to fight that whole evolution thing. Also as I stated previously, there could be other attributes at a school that make the trade off of being an extreme minority worth it - like a great curriculum, school culture, cost, etc. I'm not saying the school isn't good or that people shouldn't look at sending their children there. I'm just saying it is totally ridiculous to assume that because a parent is uncomfortable with their child being a 1% minority  and actually want diversity in a student body that they think that black youth are dangerous or less than or whatever else.

Again, I went to a high school where I was the minority racially. The school was great and I had plenty of friends in both races, but I do think it would have been a harder transition if I was a 1% minority rather than a 15% minority at a time in my life where "feeling different" can be very isolating and potentially dangerous to mental health. [/quote][/quote]

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My point is people need to think about why you think it is uncomfortable being in the 1%? Skin color or income are two variable of many that make up a person. We share more with people than those two variables. Are those the two variables you focus on when you make friends? Or others? Do you only prefer to hang out with people in your race and income? I like people with shared interests. I was also the only woman and one of few Americans in my graduate program. I guess that’s why I didn’t worry about the demographic of my kid’s new DCPS school. Again, one is only an outlier in those two categories...two categories out of many.
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