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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, but sensitive topic though it is, my kid doesn't want to be the only white student in her middle school classes.  She's made this clear.

We know that she wouldn't be the only white kid in her classes at charters where we may get off WLs.  We don't know if this would be the case at JA.

She does well on ELA (easily scores 5s) but is average, or a little below, in math (tries hard but isn't good at math).[/quote]

Ok - Wow - don't send your kid. Why are you even here engaging? PS: you know that black kids could be in the advanced track classes right?[/quote]

Spare us your holier than thou shock and bossy comments. I wouldn't want my kid to be the only person of color in a class in a 95% white school, no matter what the story might be academically.  If we can't even talk about race without trying shame those being honest about their concerns, we can't move forward as a more open and equitable society.[/quote]

I mean, I have seen shaming here, but it generally is going the other way ("how could you send your kid to THAT school?")  I feel like it's kind of a myth that parents who send their UMC (often white) kids to their IB school, or even just consider it, are some kind of moralists out to shame people.  Instead, people who have decided NOT to attend the IB schools (likely for their own, valid reasons) take the mere fact that families like theirs chose the IB as some kind of express insult to them.  [/quote]

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