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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would worry about bullying.  Your child will be the only white kid. Will they be comfortable?  Will YOU be comfortable with your kid dating black teens.[/quote]Oh my god, you just assume that black kids attending a magnet school will bully a white kid?[/quote]

No the assumption that any kid who is an "only" has a higher likelihood of being bullied. Blac, white, latino, disabled whatever.  Did you all not go to high school. I also think black kids at predominately WoTP schools are getting bulled. [/quote]

Here my $0.02 as the parent of a white child in a predominantly black school (my kid is one of 3 white kids in the entire 3-5 grades). I think white parents worry about their child getting bullied because a minority child in a predominantly white school isn’t treated very nice by the white students. They assume roles would just be reversed, which isn’t the case.[/quote]

Yeah, my son has played on a couple of sports teams where he was the only white kid.  Not just the only white kid on his team or the only white kid on any of the teams at his club (which he was), but also usually the only white kid in the building where the team practiced -- mostly in PG county high schools.  It was never an issue in any way shape or form.     [/quote]

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