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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]@Anonymous at 11:09am

I hear you on test prep but I just googled Thomson and it is apparently an IB primary years school. (The only one in DC...?) Can't just be drill/kill all day I imagine?

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Exactly, and they have Chinese and Spanish.  So many of the downtown parents are driving their kids to white charters all over the city - with a great school right there.  So...what does that say about these liberated downtown parents?[/quote]

From what I have heard from "liberated families" is they don't want to put up with the behavioral problems (foul language, unpleasant home life that gets discussed, etc). There is also a fear that their child will get picked on or become a target of anger. I am reporting this but do not agree with these statements, just so we are clear. They don't want anything to interfere with their child's learning.[/quote]

So there are no behavioral problems in schools with lots of white kids?[/quote]

I went to a nice mostly AA parochial school in DC for a few years PP. It was a pretty bad experience . I was not invited on playmates or to parties. My mom was pretty clueless and probably could have done more, but this was in the days before parents were their kids social personal assistants. I also found the constant talk of jumping classmates (not followed through on or aimed at me,, but a constant subject of juicy speculation-who would get jumped next) frankly terrifying. These were kids from nice middle/upper lower AA families. Jumping was just a huge part of their lexicon and unfamiliar/terrifying to me. At ten constant talk of beat downs was scary. Also a lot of siccin and jonin and the rest, however you spell it. And what they used to call close dancing at dances where you were all over the opposite sex without touching. Pretty ick for this fifth grader.  I'm sure there are behavioral problems at schools with white kids, but there is a cross cultural layer that parents and their children will need to navigate on top of it. Maybe if you start early you can be that white kid who shows up at the historically black college in the kid and play movies, and I think many white kids and black kids in DC who go to the more diverse schools do end up comfortable and culturally competent. But it can be hard to be the first and only. Many AA families also balk at their children being an 'only' in predominantly white schools. 
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