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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a mixed race family who were able to lottery into a charter from Maury. My youngest is still at Maury and will follow their siblings when the time comes. It also angers me when people complain about people peeling off for charters. They don't understand that if you are white and rich, risking a place like Eliot Hine is no big deal, but if you are dark skinned and barely middle class, it can be the difference between getting in to a good college or not.[/quote] +1 - A white UMC student at EH is viewed as default baseline competent and like academically advanced, not without good reason, frankly. A middle class (or even UMC) black child has to earn that assumption, and likely over and over again. This can be a problem anywhere of course, but more is particularly thorny at schools with predominant low-SES black populations. [/quote]
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