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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NoAr is my little Haven away from DC, so it saddens me to hear about events like this so close to my home. Worried about this...[/quote]

I've always been a firm believer that the less diversity a school has the more stuff like this happens.  I see it at my nephew's schools out in PW county.  They have many instances like the one in this thread.

When you are constantly around kids of all different SES, racial, social backgrounds there is [b]naturally more tolerance and acceptance of those differences.[/b]  We actively looked for 'good' public schools with at least 20-30% or so diversity. You can find these schools in Arlington---even N. Arlington. My kids have good friends from all kinds of backgrounds.  There are many International families.  Some FARMS, some rich, some where English isn't a first language.  The kids are so much more tolerant.  In fact, it's not so much tolerant as they just expect it as normal.  They don't even question or think about that so and so's parents don't speak English or they don't live in a house or they don't celebrate Christmas.  Yes- you can teach your kids this stuff, but living and being friends with other kids like this is much different.  My sticking point when looking at neighborhood schools was I didn't want them surrounded by all rich kids.  Mo' $, mo' problems.[/quote]

Nope I don't agree. I think that's one of those ideas that white parents like to believe and make themselves feel better with. My observation is the kids self-segregate and tend to simply ignore and tolerate the presence of kids who are different from them.  This is a much different thing than tolerance and acceptance. [/quote]

The elementary schools feeding Yorktown are not diverse in the least. Kids start forming friendships, and implicit biases, at very young ages. Acceptance is not impossible, but it's probably not going to happen easily at 14 when you've never had the experience before. If you don't care about this, then you don't care. But to say that it is an impossibility is not accurate at all. Will it be puppies and rainbows? Probably not. But like most things in life that require some effort, the reward is immense. If you don't agree it's worth the effort, then you do you. But it's not impossible. Acceptance would be easier to achieve if kids were in diverse environments earlier on.

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