Definitely look at Burgundy Farm. It was the first integrated school in Virginia.

http://www.burgundyfarm.org/about-burgundy/diversity/index.aspx

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Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at SSSAS and Burgundy Farm?

Las a person of Color, I had serious reservations about SSSAS -- it's got a lot of richwhite southern Reoublicans whose views influence the feel of the school community. Burgundy is a much better environment for minority kids.

Sorry, but Burgundy actually does have lots of rich nasty people.

SSSAS surprised us - we now have three children there and all have diverse classes. Off the top of my head I count 5 AAs in a class of 18 and 4 in a class of 15.
We also do not find it to be a conservative place. take a look!

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Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at SSSAS and Burgundy Farm?

Las a person of Color, I had serious reservations about SSSAS -- it's got a lot of richwhite southern Reoublicans whose views influence the feel of the school community. Burgundy is a much better environment for minority kids.

LOL - I'm going to show this to my cardcarrying ACLU friend who sends her kids there. What is a lot? I bet there are no more than 20% "rich white southern republicans." Only in NOVa is that a lot ...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at SSSAS and Burgundy Farm?

Las a person of Color, I had serious reservations about SSSAS -- it's got a lot of richwhite southern Reoublicans whose views influence the feel of the school community. Burgundy is a much better environment for minority kids.

You do realize that there are black republicans too. Not every AA is a poor liberal on welfare.

And not every AA that is a liberal is poor or on welfare. WTH?!? I would imagine there a few Black Republicans who are poor and on welfare side that seems to be the GOPs base these days.

Burgundy Farms was founded in VA, like GDS was in DC, as an integrated school in a jurisdiction where all schools were segregated. Great history, and the commitment continues on.

Before we visited SSSAS we had a perception of its being more conservative and not particularly diverse, but that hasn't been our experience at the Upper School at all. Sure it is politically diverse (which according to our child makes class discussisons much more interesting), but Hillary won the mock election in a landslide, and our DC has a very diverse set of friends. Good luck with the process!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at SSSAS and Burgundy Farm?

Las a person of Color, I had serious reservations about SSSAS -- it's got a lot of richwhite southern Reoublicans whose views influence the feel of the school community. Burgundy is a much better environment for minority kids.

You do realize that there are black republicans too. Not every AA is a poor liberal on welfare.

You don't have to be liberal, poor, or democrat to dislike an environment where there is a prevalence of clueless white people.

The Head of the Lower School at Little Langley is AA. I'm sure if you spoke with her, she could address your questions.

OP here. Thanks so much for the info. I've heard that SSSAS would be lacking from that standpoint. I hadn't considered ACDS but will look into it.

21:45 thanks you for explaining, I thought abbreviations were common place and well understood, apparently not

I thought it would be odd to ask to speak specifically to an AA family. I wouldn't think of asking that, but would approach one if they were at an Open House of some sort.

Potomac is fairly diverse. My DC's class of 18 has 3 AA, several other minorities (lots of SE Asians at the school), and an AA teacher. The school does a really good job and has a staff member who focuses solely on diversity & minority issues. We've been very impressed.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at SSSAS and Burgundy Farm?

Las a person of Color, I had serious reservations about SSSAS -- it's got a lot of richwhite southern Reoublicans whose views influence the feel of the school community. Burgundy is a much better environment for minority kids.

You do realize that there are black republicans too. Not every AA is a poor liberal on welfare.

DD is at Little langley, where 3 out of 12 kids in her class are AA.

My kids actually go to SSSAS. DC1, in class of 16, 2 are AA and 2 are biracial (AA and white), so that alone is 1/4 of DC's class. There is also a Hispanic child, and a Jewish child (which is significant only that this is an episcopalian school). In that grade there are many other AA children (they are not all grouped in one homeroom), Egyptian, Asian (east Indian, Korean and Chinese), Hispanic, same sex parent homes, immigrants, and various different combinations of biracial (AA/white, Asian/AA, Asian/white, etc.).

DC2 in class of 12, 2 AA, 2 AA biracial (so that is 1/3 of the classroom), 2 with immigrant parents (ESL). In that grade there are also Japanese, Korean, filipino, Hispanic, Slavic, Jewish, etc.