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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the mean girl behavior is much more prevalent in schools with a high percentage of UMC girls.  My DD does to a high FARMS school (but we are UMC) and says there are no “mean girls” or “popular girls” type groups.  It is a very diverse group of kids and they all manage to get along [/quote]

We have the same experience. My kids' schools are Title 1 and majority POC. I don't know, maybe it's because the UMC parents who aren't afraid to send their kids to a school like this are more open-minded and less into materialism? My 7th grade DD hasn't experienced anything like what OP is describing. She met a new girl and invited her to join her for lunch. She gets along with most of the kids . . . the only issues are a single kid being homophobic or generally mean on a group text and other kids calling them out. [/quote]

Our school is predominantly Hispanic and FARMS. The UMC kids generally don’t mix with the FARMs population.  
There are definitely cliques and mean girls in both groups. I have one child who is in honors classes and whose friends are MC/UMC and one in gen ed whose friends are largely low income. The groups tend to have similar issues, but one group has a higher rate of physical violence. [/quote]

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