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[quote=Anonymous]To OP, 20:08 here again.  We too have and have long had quite a diverse group of friends, acquaintances, and colleagues.  Our kids have the same.   We do still, or maybe because of this, make an effort to talk about racial (and economic) inequality in our house even though, as white Americans it can feel like a landmine at times.

I admit, the private schools my kids attend (different ones) are "racially" diverse, and significantly more so than the schools they would likely have attended in N Arlington.  That is with the exception of a Hispanic population. I do think they would have had more school mates with families from South and Central America if they were in NArlington schools.  The are few Hispanics kids in their privates.

I do think location diversity is another benefit of private schools too.  They have friends who live in NoVA, MoCo, most sections of DC, and PGC.  We go to these friends homes and they come to ours.  The range of housing and neighborhoods is pretty great.  My kids understand wealth disparity and how that effects certain neighborhoods (at least in terms youngish kids  can understand) and I think they are growing in to people who will feel comfortable in all neighborhoods of their DC metro area.  They also understand that money and skin color have no correlation to character and kindness and manners and hospitality to your fellow man.

Bottom line, I didn't feel comfortable sending my kids to the great public schools in N Arlington because, in addition to large student teacher rations and NCLB, I felt that they would be in a bubble, a bubble which I found constraining and was not the world I wanted them to grow in to.  Yes, race is a part of that but its a much larger picture in my opinion.[/quote]

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