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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think that it is awesome that you are so invested in your child's school experience. The reason that I think this is that I was a white student in a majority African American school when I was younger and my parents were nowhere near as interested in my school experience than you are. While the experience was very eye opening and has helped me become who I am today, it would have been easier if my parents understood that there are struggles when one is a minority anywhere, especially when you are one of few white kids in your class.[/quote]

Being a minority in a high ses white school is much different. Those children are taught to be inclusive and cordial to all regardless of color. When you are the minority in a lower ses minority majority those kids tend to exclude others and are not behaved. Furthermore society especially their society promotes the idea that[b] reverse racism doesn't exist[/b] and is acceptable[/quote]

OP here.

"Reverse racism" does not exist. There is racism and then there is non-racism. Racial prejudice against white people does exist, and everyone knows it exists. Your post is racist as hell. "Those kids tend to exclude other and are not behaved" - listen to yourself. "Their society"?

School is a place where students learn how to behave in social situations. Some kids may not have learned this before. My kid was terrible at sharing and waiting in line. She is better at it now, but she's still not perfect. Her low SES black friends are similarly better at but not perfect at behaving well.

If there is anything that I've learned on DCUM, it's certainly that "those children" are ABSOLUTELY not taught to "be inclusive and cordial to all regardless of color." If that was the case, more of y'all would be sending your white kids to your majority non-white neighborhood schools.[/quote]

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