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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not pull your kids out of a school they’re happy at for something that happened before they were born.  [/quote]

Yes.

And yes, boarding schools, by their very nature, were prone to abuses in the past (and you need to be careful about abuses in the present). This is nothing surprising either.

No reason to pull your kids out if they're happy and safe.[/quote]
I agree with the above.[b] You live in the South.[/b] Hard to avoid very awful things that happened in the past... Focus on what is happening there NOW. If your kids are happy and thriving and that is the only school option you feel/know they could get a good education then I would never consider switching. HOWEVER I would be very mindful and purposeful to make sure I am including things in my family life that demonstrate inclusivity and an acknowledgment of past history and how that has negatively affected African Americans. I would not leave these conversations and actions up to the school. I mean that you make a point to have a lifestyle that includes others who appear "different" from you in your social circle, I would not join a country club that is predominately white for instance, and learn about that part of history as a family, as age appropriate.

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Virginia is in the south. Most people just forget that.

In fact, Virginia has the absolute worst history of school desegregation and has the distinction of being the only place in the entire US where a country closed schools long term [5 years] rather than integrate. The previous Wikipedia link about segregation academies explains it. What the state of VA did to ensure integration didn't happen is truly appalling. People living in NoVa are largely ignorant of the history of the state.

Flint Hill in Fairfax, VA is one of the schools that came out of the massive resistance and was supported by tuition grants provided by the state - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Hill_School
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