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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing seems a trend to me (as an upper middle income non-white person), it's liberal guilt whites who seem to see 'value' in sending their kids to majority or near- majority low income schools. I think you'd be hard pressed to find upper middle income minority families attempting the same thing. I think the only thing such an attempt would do to my little brown kid is reinforce the already pervasive notion that brown means to be poor and uneducated. I think it is important to empathize and try to alleviate poverty,speaking as someone with ample prior exposure to poverty both personally and professionally. What I don't understand is the desire of certain rich white folk to emulate it in their children's educations. [/quote]

I think it is hard to find a really "white" school in MoCo for starters.  Even the W schools seem to have a decent amount of racial diversity.  That said and yes I did want a diverse (race and otherwise) school for my child because that is representative of society.  This does not mean I'm sending her to a Title I school but like I said - you don't have to go to a Title I school in Mo Co to find diversity.  Its not that hard.[/quote]
I am AA and my daughter went to a Title 1 school for kindergarten and first grade -- it was an excellent school, excellent environment, and a lot smaller classes than some of the non-downcounty schools that are so sought after.
And as for the other PP -- my kid would no have NO IDEA what black, brown, or purple kids had low-incomes or not...[/quote]

I am PP and I wasn't putting down Title I schools at all.  I was responding to the PP who says that there is a trend for liberal guilty whites to intentionally send their kids to a low income school.  I was just trying to state that its not that hard to find diversity in MO CO schools and that there was no liberal guilt at all in how I chose our school - I was looking for diversity because I want my child to live in reality.  No, we did not go searching for a title I school - but that doesn't mean we weren't looking for a school that was representative of society.  I don't know if I'm making sense.  Anyhow - since we bought - I have continued to hear good things about some of the Title I schools and I'm hoping we made the right decision. The smaller class size sounds great.[/quote]

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