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[quote=Anonymous][quote]My kids experience diversity out in the burbs but the POC are viewed as equals who just look different. In ACPS, due to vast socioeconomic differences, your kids are segregated and generally only experience diversity in sports or witnessing discipline. It's not healthy as the human brain naturally makes associations so when your child sees black or Latino children engaged in brawls and being arrested, they are going to make permanent associations between those POC and violence, poverty, and lack of education.[/quote]

I've been thinking about what is bothering me about these threads, given that there are many things about ACPS that I am unhappy and disappointed with.

Yes, there are serious issues with violence in the schools that vastly disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic students.
Yes, programs like the STEM Academy and AP classes do not mirror the racial makeup of the school.

These are real problems.

However, I find it troubling that people continuously claim that [u]all[/u] Black and Hispanic students are constantly in trouble, and not enrolled to any extent in good academic programs and classes.  That is just not true.  There are absolutely Black and Hispanic students who are successful and go on to four year colleges.  The problem is that the number is not proportional to the number of students at the school.[/quote]

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