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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The demographics at Whitman are shifting. The problem is that right now most of the students of color are in special programs and can't regulate their behaviors, so the white kids are getting really weird impressions of what people of color are like. [/quote]

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Lots of white kids at Whitman assume when they see a black kid that that kid will be a behavior problem because a large percentage of the few black kids they have in their grades are bussed in for the emotional disabilities program.[/quote]

Yes. Whitman receives both the kids who are placed into the Emotional Disabilities program, and kids living in a nearby group home for adjudicated youth. This creates a toxic dynamic, where the only Black kids in the school are either kids known to have trouble controlling their emotions, court-involved youth, or the kids of the Botswandan ambassador. For white/Asian kids at Whitman, it means they are not generally encountering just normal MC/UMC American-born (ADOS) Black peers. [/quote]

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