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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Horrible, and sad to think what these brawling thugs progress to later:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-was-almost-unrecognizable-beating-victims-wife-testifies/2013/04/30/59ee8078-b1a6-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html

No way will I send a child of mine to a DC public high school.  [/quote]My kid was safe in her DC public high school.  It was when she went to private school that she was sexually assaulted. She also got drugs and alcohol from her addicted rich friends. (Hmmm, at least two heroin addicts that I knew of.  I'm sure there were more.)

You folks do what you want but upper middle class white kids are pretty good at hurting each other in very serious ways and getting away with it.  Your kid has a lot more to fear from his/her rich white friends than from the average working class/poor black kid at DCPS.  But I know that it's even pointless to raise this in this forum when [i]the fear[/i] has gripped everyone by the throat.[/quote]

This is of course why poor children and their families refuse to send their kids to places like NCS, Maret, and Sidwell Friends. They're simply too dangerous to attend. You should write a column on this subject in Slate.[/quote]Yep, go ahead and be sarcastic. It doesn't change the fact that the anxiety about your children in DCPS is way overblown. What well-to-do white parents have to worry about is the well-to-do white kids that their children actually hang out with.  Your kids aren't going to run with the working class/poor black kids who are getting into these fights. Nope, they're going to face much bigger challenges coping with the craziness in their own peer group, which, as was mentioned above, includes a growing interest in heroin use.

But then this is typically the way people think.  Every college tour we took, the tour guides made a big deal of all the "blue lights" on campus so anyone who was attacked could call for help.  But the truth is that most sexual assaults are committed by someone known to the victim, not some stranger jumping out of the bushes at night on a college campus. It's the same with your kids.[/quote]

Applause to you and to "word salad lady." The levels of thinly veiled racism and racist microaggressions are staggering not just on this forum, but on this entire website. Do some critical thinking, y'all. Watch some Melissa Harris-Perry or read The New Jim Crow. Talk to the Black parents at your DCPCS. Leave your snug neighborhood bubbles. Think about why the sight of a bunch of Black kids talking loudly makes you afraid, but the sight of white boys yelling at a football game in a bar doesn't. Think about the lives of these kids' great-great-grandparents and how they compared to the lives of yours. Think about the long line of privilege that resulted in you, in this moment, sitting at a computer and making cracks that "Wilson students" (Black kids, don't even START to act like you don't mean Black kids) are "too stupid" to do anything but brawl. Just listen to the experiences of people whose life paths diverge wildly from yours. Listen with an open mind. You might learn something.[/quote]

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