| OMG! I hope I don't sound like Bill Cosby when I say this, but I have to give Cos his due. Silvermoonlock, your child sounds a little like my kids. They go to a high school that is very diverse. (39 percent black, 36 percent white, 12 percent Asian, 11 percent Hispanic) The black population of the school is the one that's been growing. My son said to me that other night, "If I weren't black, my school would make be be a racist against blacks." He says some of the black kids at the school behave so badly that they are giving blacks a bad name. As far as my D, who is a senior, she's in almost all AP classes, and there are very few blacks in those classes. Therefore, her experience of the school is very different from my son's experience. It's almost like they go to different schools if you look at the makeup of their classes. Anyway, my kids feel that the other blacks at their school are giving other races the wrong impression about what blacks are really like. These kids are in the middle class, living in decent homes, but seem to have very little regard for education. It's frightening. Since my S is a freshman, I can only hope we're just seeing freshman immaturity and not something more sinister. |