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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I went to Wilson in the mid-90s. I was one of those loud black teenagers hanging out by the Tenleytown metro and loitering in Metro Center. I was disruptive and annoying to commuters on the trains. Now, I am a highly educated professional mother of two posting on DCUM (and I have the HHI that goes with that). Now, I ride Metro home and sometimes encounter today’s version of me and my HS friends.[b] While they may annoy me, I can look at them and know that the way they are acting after school on the train with their friends is in no way indicative of who they are as human beings [/b]and what they might go on to achieve as adults. When you are in DCPS, the Metro is your school bus and the behavior you see on the trains is for the most part teens being teens. I see the white Metro commuters eyeing these teens, and I just know that they don’t see them the same way I do. They look slightly afraid and definitely dismissive of these children. The general tone on this thread confirms that. It makes me sad. [/quote]

Sorry, I disagree.  How you act in public absolutely is indicative of who you are as a human being.  I absolutely agree that often times, it has no bearing on the adult you become, but if you act, all the time, in public, like a loud, disruptive, annoying idiot, then that's who you are.  You can change, of course, and I'm certainly glad you did, but let's be real - many kids (of all races and SES backgrounds) don't, and remain the same annoying, self-centered assholes to the day they die.  Just with jobs and high SES.  [/quote]

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