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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our AA boy attended a JKLM and had a great experience.  Went private after that.[/quote]

This is extremely helpful. Do you wish you had started private earlier? Several longstanding AA families we know have suggested that several of the privates are a better fit for their kids.[/quote]

"better fit" due to race or just, privates are nice for all kids? may be hard to tease out the differences since the latter are more homogeneous SES-wise.[/quote]

I think this has been discussed in other threads (I am not AA,  simply remember posts on this issue). Apparently some AA parents do not feel comfortable sending their kids to Wilson because they are concerned their kids, if high achieving,  could be teased by other AA boys and accused to be "Oreos", "talking white", "acting white", for just being  successful students. In private schools they are surrounded by like-minded kids of all races.  While these issues are not coming up in elementary school, they do come up when kids grow up in middle school and especially in high school. I personally know only one AA family who did this (child went to Eaton and then Deal, but after that child went private instead of Wilson), but this was the explanation that the mother gave me (Wilson not a good environment for a young AA teenager)[/quote]

Fascinating perspective. It begs the question of why the AAs not " acting white" (meaning they prefer to act gangsta) are allowed to harass the other students.[/quote]

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