When Minority Students Attend Elite Private Schools

[WheresWallace]

i didn't realize how bad my public schooling was until i got to college. basically all my college teachers told me freshman year was that everything i learned from k-12 was bullshiet which turned out to be true

My senior year, my teacher told me the same thing. I was like

I got to college and all the niiggas that went to my school (and public schools) was behind and had to take a few prep classes...

Public school does not prepare you at all.

 

[WheresWallace]

Definitely. Should be a combination of after school home schooling and public/private school. Im still trying to figure out whats the best way to school my son...hes goin to the first next year. I consider myself of above average intelligence...and its so much I want to teach him. Hes not yet at the level where I can easily impart certain knowledge on yet though.
I like this article..especially where she says she wants her kids to be comfortable around white folks, cause she isnt even at that point. I can agree to a certain extent

I went to mixed (slightly more white) schools pretty much my whole life and Im still not 100% comfortable around white folks.

I think to be 100% comfortable around white folks you have to assimilate to some degree. The problem is, you are assimilating to them but they have no need to assimilate to you. So if you aren't willing to let go of who you are (to some degree) you will always have some discomfort.
:thinking:

Personally, I choose to hold on tightly to my culture and heritage so I don't know how that will work.

 

[YouMadd?]

I smell a c00n

Or you're just an idiot

 

[mrken12]

I went to a private school. It definitely benefited me and helped me through college.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

That changed after an incident in his sophomore year of high school. Collin was playing ping pong with friends in the student lounge, and another student entered and took the paddle from him, declaring that it was his turn. Collin's friends demanded that the boy give it back—it wasn't his turn and, if Collin wanted to, he could take it back by force since he was bigger. Still, Collin insisted that it wasn't worth it and let it go; the other student agreed.

"Collin's smarter than that," he said. "He knows if he takes it from me, if he physically touches me, he'll definitely end up working at McDonald’s in ten years." Stunned, Collin left the lounge, went to a bathroom down the hall, and cried.

"I thought about all the fights I got into and how they were similar," he says. "I'm a big optimist so I used to think, 'Oh, that person didn't mean it that way, it's not like that.' I really thought that I was part of the community and a valued person, but I was still this little charity case. It was like he was saying, 'My grandparents' grandparents went to Harvard, so my life is set. You got this one chance, but if you fukk it up you've got nothing to fall back on.'"

smh

 

[Midrash]

One thing I felt was stupid was that I had to be extra careful about getting in fights with fukkbois. We had a zero tolerance policy for fighting/drugs/etc at the classical school and any serious offense will get you transferred back to your original high school. It didn't matter who started the fight.


Since I didn't have rich parents to lean on if I got caught in a bind, I knew I was fukked if I ever fought anyone. There were a ton of annoying fakkits that liked pushing people's buttons for the fukk of it. It didn't help that I looked like I was in middle school either. (I had a baby face and I hit puberty late so I literally looked like Drake in his high school picture

)


I wasn't a punk, I stood up for myself but I learned a great deal about patience, restraint and controlling my emotions. It definitely helped me with learning to keep calm under stressful situations.

 

[Consigliere]

Sidwell FTW!

R you from DC?

 

[Nasty_Nate]

,

(I'm near a military base).






A lot of them were cool as hell and we had all age ranges and every teacher was a unique character. Since the school is near a military base, the school was constantly rotating teachers due to spouses transferring and it allowed a breath of fresh air while some anchored at our school and did amazing things with their classroom.

Surprisingly the worse teachers I experienced were the hardcore redneck/paula deen older white ladies. left with him.





Our school was clique heavy but luckily it wasn't along any racial lines and more akin to stereotypes(If you were a nerd, you hung out with nerds regardless of race, anime kids hung out, jocks all hung out regardless of race, skateboard kids all hung out, drama filled party animals partied together(and knocked each other up and did trains after drunken stupors), rich preps all hung out together, stoners cliqued together, etc)
Due to all of this we surprisingly had a lot of interracial dating at our school(about 25% of all dating) and we had a ton of biracial students too. It was nice that people got along so well surprisingly.


Even though the redneck and Paula Deen type teachers had an "outdated" view of black people, it was all good and the bad teachers typically didn't stay any longer than 2 years max. I found my college to be a lot more racially segregated than my high school ever was.

Where is this school located? I was a military brat growing up, and I wonder if it may be somewhere I've lived before. I went to a public high school that was, during those times, one of the best schools in the county. Most of the kids there were military kids, but a lot of the teachers were local people from Tennessee. So some of the teachers from East Tennessee and other rural areas, that moved to my town for teaching jobs, would show some bias on the low. It was a very diverse school, but most of the kids got along because about 70% of them were military brats who were used to being around all kinds of different people. Most of the local black kids were cool too, most of them came from the pj's. The only issues we ever had were with the handful of local white kids, because a large number of thrm were country bumpkin types that didn't fit in with the military kids or the local blacks, and even the few local whites that were somewhat well off and had no issues with anybody. Going to college was a culture shock, because it was about 90% percent white, mostly rural types, and not the diverse, open-minded, utopian like environment I grew up in as a military brat.

 

[KobeTho]

Will send my kid (if I ever have one) to a diverse private school for sure

 

[Midrash]

I want to make sure when I have kids that they understand that they should never be afraid of being themselves and touching the sky. I was called all kinds of names by everyone and I wished I was true to myself much earlier. I really could have gone places if I didn't hold back and never let others dictate how I should have acted as a black man.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Diversity is the best. I'll be damned if my kids go to a race exclusive school

 

[PikaDaDon]

She is known for writing the book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. The book reveals that changes gradually brought into the American public education system work to eliminate the influences of a child's parents (religion, morals, national patriotism), and mold the child into a member of the proletariat in preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future.

Also:

I've noticed that many public schools are starting to force all children to take free breakfast in the classroom. This is to indoctrinate children to the low-nutrient foods that are created with government subsidized crops like wheat, corn, and sugar. They are being served sweet rolls and low-fat or skim milk, which is a waste product from cream. It's to counter the raw, organic movement or eating healthy in general. The children then grow up to become chronically ill (nutrient deprived) adults and perpetual customers for the pharmaceutical and medical industry.

 

[DaPresident]

Sidwell FTW!

Don't nobody care bout y'all uppity nikkas.
I do after school work over there since I don't work but like 3 min away...

It's hell getting there tho, especially after school, gotta wait til secret service get them Obamas and whatnot away


Archbishop Carroll

 

[DIMES]

That changed after an incident in his sophomore year of high school. Collin was playing ping pong with friends in the student lounge, and another student entered and took the paddle from him, declaring that it was his turn. Collin's friends demanded that the boy give it back—it wasn't his turn and, if Collin wanted to, he could take it back by force since he was bigger. Still, Collin insisted that it wasn't worth it and let it go; the other student agreed.

"Collin's smarter than that," he said. "He knows if he takes it from me, if he physically touches me, he'll definitely end up working at McDonald’s in ten years." Stunned, Collin left the lounge, went to a bathroom down the hall, and cried.

"I thought about all the fights I got into and how they were similar," he says. "I'm a big optimist so I used to think, 'Oh, that person didn't mean it that way, it's not like that.' I really thought that I was part of the community and a valued person, but I was still this little charity case. It was like he was saying, 'My grandparents' grandparents went to Harvard, so my life is set. You got this one chance, but if you fukk it up you've got nothing to fall back on.'"

smh

How old is this kid? If he's in HS damn he is weak. If that's me I'm gonna give him an ultimimum and if he refuses... I'm throwing hands immediately. Not cry in some damn corner.

 

[Thegospel]

There's no right answer to this topic. It's only what your experience was growing up and how you want your kid to follow in that direction. Dudes saying they want their kid in a mixed school is what they want. No guarantee that decision is best for the kid though. The only right answer is you have to know your kid and communicate with them to know what's best. If your kid hates studying they dont need to be at an elite private school. Some parents don't see that their kid hates studying and sends them their anyway.how kids turn out is all about their parents I don't care if they go to public or private school.