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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I went to a nice mostly AA parochial school in DC for a few years PP. It was a pretty bad experience . I was not invited on playmates or to parties. My mom was pretty clueless and probably could have done more, but this was in the days before parents were their kids social personal assistants. I also found the constant talk of jumping classmates (not followed through on or aimed at me,, but a constant subject of juicy speculation-who would get jumped next) frankly terrifying. [b]These were kids from nice middle/upper lower AA families. Jumping was just a huge part of their lexicon and unfamiliar/terrifying to me. [/b]At ten constant talk of beat downs was scary. Also a lot of siccin and jonin and the rest, however you spell it. And what they used to call close dancing at dances where you were all over the opposite sex without touching. Pretty ick for this fifth grader.  I'm sure there are behavioral problems at schools with white kids, but there is a cross cultural layer that parents and their children will need to navigate on top of it. Maybe if you start early you can be that white kid who shows up at the historically black college in the kid and play movies, and I think many white kids and black kids in DC who go to the more diverse schools do end up comfortable and culturally competent. But it can be hard to be the first and only. Many AA families also balk at their children being an 'only' in predominantly white schools. [/b]

Um, so spending a few years at this school makes you an expert on AA culture, and qualified to comment on what is or isn't part of the culture?  Whatever, dude.

I hope you understand that your anecdotal experience doesn't mean it's fair or accurate to extrapolate to the culture of an entire group of people.  I've been black my whole life, and grew up in 100% black neighborhoods and attended predominantly black schools through college, both with kids from the projects and those from affluent families.  The notion that "jumping" is part of the culture is pretty ridiculous.  Yes a few kids would talk about it occasionally, and it was more common in certain subgroups, but it was not something that I would describe as common or "a constant subject of juicy speculation."

If I sent my kid to a high school in Potomac where lots of kids were using Oxycontin, I would be incorrect to conclude that opioid use is an innate part of white American culture.  Same idea applies here.

I could say more, but I'll stop there.  I'm sure you consider yourself a liberal, too.

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I'm curious what your take is on this article:

[quote]Minter said that if the children are bused from Kimball to Davis, there won’t be trouble, but that “if they have to walk through the community, there’s a good chance there could be a problem.”[/quote]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/when-a-dc-school-closed-for-renovations-parents-faced-a-troubling-choice/2017/07/04/88c94334-5773-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html

I'm not an expert on AA culture, but it seems to me this has less to do with AA culture, and more to do with the culture of poverty over multiple generations.[/quote]

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