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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a white parent (at Lee in fact!) and I’m terrible about making assumptions about black families! I’m inclined to think black families are poor and uneducated, that the moms are single parents and so on. And I’m embarrassed that it takes me a lot longer to learn to recognize black kids and parents than white ones! And a lot longer to feel comfortable talking to black families. This is all totally against my beliefs, but it lives deep in our brains. I do what I can to do better. [/quote]

I get recognizing internal prejudice is a good thing, but so many of the black families at Lee are middle class that these assumptions feel out of whack.  Are you new there?  I read the PP's post and thought it was a combination of being young and black that caused the treatment because there are so many high ses black families at HRCS that facing those kind of assumptions would be odd unless there was another factor involved, like youth.[/quote]

Yeah, this is a little weird, I mean these HRCS have plenty of non-poor families of color, even mostly. I wouldn't ever assume this even based on age, which I don't think is much of a factor. I think Montessori schools - as discussed up the thread - also appeal more to middle and upper class.

Although I love the earlier black PP's comment and don't think they're crazy. I'm sure I miss microagressions a lot. [/quote]

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