Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant. The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.

OP here.

The target audience of this post, specifically, was white families of PK students who are apprehensive about their white children being in a majority minority school for social reasons. This is something that comes up on almost every post about a majority minority school: what will the social experience of a white child be in a majority minority classroom? What sorts of issues will children have in those situations, etc.

For what it's worth, I talked to DD about this last night. I asked her if there was anything she'd noticed about school, whether she was different from other kids in some way. She said, "Well, a lot of them speak Spanish. I wish I spoke more Spanish." I told her we could work on that if she wanted to, and she was excited. I asked her if she'd noticed that she was the only white kid in her class, and she said yes. I asked her what she thought of that, and she kind of rolled her eyes and was like, "Mom, they're just my friends. Some of them are black and some of them are Hispanic. But they're just my friends." I told her that there were people who wondered if things felt different for her because she's white and the rest of the class isn't and asked if anyone had ever teased her because of that before, and she said no, nothing like that had ever happened. Then she launched into a monologue about a problem she had with a boy in her class last year (who is in her class this year too), and ended the story with, "But it's not because he's black. It's because he has bad behavior. White kids have bad behavior too."

OP, sorry but the way you titled and framed this thread is deeply disingenuous. If most/ all students are Hispanic, some of them will surely be white--as white (if not more) than your DD.

So what's the deal exactly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant. The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.

OP here.

The target audience of this post, specifically, was white families of PK students who are apprehensive about their white children being in a majority minority school for social reasons. This is something that comes up on almost every post about a majority minority school: what will the social experience of a white child be in a majority minority classroom? What sorts of issues will children have in those situations, etc.

For what it's worth, I talked to DD about this last night. I asked her if there was anything she'd noticed about school, whether she was different from other kids in some way. She said, "Well, a lot of them speak Spanish. I wish I spoke more Spanish." I told her we could work on that if she wanted to, and she was excited. I asked her if she'd noticed that she was the only white kid in her class, and she said yes. I asked her what she thought of that, and she kind of rolled her eyes and was like, "Mom, they're just my friends. Some of them are black and some of them are Hispanic. But they're just my friends." I told her that there were people who wondered if things felt different for her because she's white and the rest of the class isn't and asked if anyone had ever teased her because of that before, and she said no, nothing like that had ever happened. Then she launched into a monologue about a problem she had with a boy in her class last year (who is in her class this year too), and ended the story with, "But it's not because he's black. It's because he has bad behavior. White kids have bad behavior too."

Anonymous wrote:I exercise a lot of empathy, but I am not a doormat. Nor is my child. We need to discuss these issues. Discussing them is not making anyone an "exotic," it is the only way we will move on, the only we will actually move forward. I am horrified at how segregated education has become in this country, how complicit we all have become in making it so. But I have as little tolerance for parents who tell me that I am only making my child an exotic by sending her to school with theirs as I do for the white ones cowering in Chevy Chase, who sigh and say, "what can be done?"

I am horrified at how segregated education has become in this country, how complicit we all have become in making it so.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant. The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.

OP here.

The target audience of this post, specifically, was white families of PK students who are apprehensive about their white children being in a majority minority school for social reasons. This is something that comes up on almost every post about a majority minority school: what will the social experience of a white child be in a majority minority classroom? What sorts of issues will children have in those situations, etc.

For what it's worth, I talked to DD about this last night. I asked her if there was anything she'd noticed about school, whether she was different from other kids in some way. She said, "Well, a lot of them speak Spanish. I wish I spoke more Spanish." I told her we could work on that if she wanted to, and she was excited. I asked her if she'd noticed that she was the only white kid in her class, and she said yes. I asked her what she thought of that, and she kind of rolled her eyes and was like, "Mom, they're just my friends. Some of them are black and some of them are Hispanic. But they're just my friends." I told her that there were people who wondered if things felt different for her because she's white and the rest of the class isn't and asked if anyone had ever teased her because of that before, and she said no, nothing like that had ever happened. Then she launched into a monologue about a problem she had with a boy in her class last year (who is in her class this year too), and ended the story with, "But it's not because he's black. It's because he has bad behavior. White kids have bad behavior too."

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant. The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant. The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.

No, it really does not. But by attacking her repeatedly, you pretty much destroy all of your own credibility. Are you offended because she used the words black and white? Ate you offended that she dared send her child to a school where child is the minority? Becauase in the same position as the op, I actually met several moms just like you. Thankfully, not all, or even most.

I don't think it makes YOU a bad parent. Just one that I personally find unpleasant. But your issues are your own. They have nothing to do with my family.

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant. The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant. The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.

That is precisely how some non-black/Latino families view it. OP is speaking to them.

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

It doesn't matter, that's irrelevant. The issue is that this post portrays the situation like her child is in some crazy, exotic situation.

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

PP- Still not reading ... School is majority Hispanic not black.

Anonymous wrote:

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.

Thank you! That is exactly what I was thinking.

As an African American parent, I find this post very troubling- the freak show aspect of it (come talk to me about what it is like to be surrounded by those black people) and the parents that are asking the most inane questions. This anonymous board just allows people to do things they would never do in real life.