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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the TO talk makes me wonder - what's the point of creating a specific class to your standards, whatever those standards are? Just a prestige thing? [/quote]

I don't see how this is a prestige thing. Exposure to peers with a diversity of backgrounds, thoughts, geographies, etc is crucial to an enriching educational experience. [/quote]

What you are describing is a white people thing. Most minorities have already co-existed in environments diverse in the examples you give. You make it seem so precious and rare. Maybe if you stopped segregating k-12 and making your kids live in your life bubble, they could worry as adults about more important things such as getting the best education they can. Now if you're talking about international students from around the world who have the same academic ability, then sure.[/quote]

You have no idea what race I am or my kids are or where my kids live or have gone to school but nice try. [/quote]

Very minority of you to say something like that. Or not. If your kid was already in a diverse environment in k-12, then they wouldn't need to learn how to navigate in one as an adult. And if that's true then that is the parent's fault.
BTW, was that you who ran the PTA at school and was so over the top woke only in those settings and their kids only played with kids that looked like them? Or did you coach or bro around with the coach in my kids' sports teams and gave them little playing time even though they were better than your kid and most of the other kids? Or did you bulldoze your way into the gifted clusters so learning screeched to a halt? Any one example is not specific to you because I don't know you but they represent people like you. You get so offended and take it personally when a statement about minority kids not needing to learn how to experience diversity as adults is blatantly true. [b]Minorities have had to deal with a sense of not belonging and loss all the time and prove that they belonged in white society.[/b][/quote]

I don't doubt that for many of them. I wasn't offended nor did I take what you said personally. My kids and I are white and they go to a minority-majority high school with over 50% free lunch but go off. [/quote]

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