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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP.  So nice to see this thread still going.  To some of the pp's inquiries about private schools - I think there might be some area private schools that have decent size minority populations and offer a good academic experience and peer group.  The Catholic high schools especially come to mind - St. John's, DeMatha, Good Counsel.  I just wish there was an equivalent experience in the public schools.  Seems like in the public schools, to get a more "elite" academic experience, you eliminate much of the racial diversity our kids need to have a healthy social experience.[/quote].

My AA 8th DD journals everything, and today I came across one her writings today.  She's talking about a boy in her class (all W class)  that she has liked since the beginning of the year, and they have become good friends.  Well he likes her W class sister a lot and has express this to my DD.  Since she truly cares for these two, she talks about her struggles of coping with it. This is just one situation that is oh so familiar, and more like this will continue all the way to 12th, if she were to remain there.  All along she'll be questioning herself as if she isn't good enough.  This year can't end soon enough.........................!!![/quote]

Sad, but you might want to casually explain to her that most (stats to back it up) White men would never date a Black girl. She has to understand that it has nothing to do with her. There was a thread on off topic, about "would your spouse have married you if...you had been any other race". It was side stepped by many people, only those in mixed race relationships proudly took a stab, but deep down, people know the deal. The reason that you need to clarify these things to her is that she needs to know that you are on her side so that when she is ready to discuss it, she knows that you will support her. 
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It depends on the situation. My brother completely flunked out of high school.  My parents moved to an area where our school was 4% minority, that included black, latino and asian kids.  My brother could not handle it and the school could never adjust to him.  I've seen this to be more the case.  For that reason, I ended up moving my older son to a school where the majority of kids were black, but it was a magnate.  He excelled when he was no longer being targeted for having "ADD."  The majority white school kept throwing that out.  We had our son tested.  The psychologist, a white woman, said get him out of that school immediately!  She suggested that we apply to the magnate and we never looked back.  [/quote]

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