| Re: Being Childlike [message #1925 is a reply to message #1855] |
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rdwhitaker
Messages: 118
Registered: December 2012
Location: Vancouver, Washington
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When our children were in elementary school, the city school district formed a "Magnet School." The idea was to bus middle class kids from the suburbs to attend school in the inner city. They offered the best teachers, equipment and programs to be found anywhere, and it worked. We sent our kids to this school. I was a little concerned about exposing our children to some of the more negative elements of society. The school was surrounded by poverty, with serious gang and drug activity. Many of the inner city school children had grown up in an environment of neglect, abuse, rage, and combativeness.
One day my 5th grade son came home upset because another student had been picking on him and they got into a fight. I immediately suspected it was an "us versus them" situation, black versus white, etc. So I tried to find out more about the incident. I asked my son if the other boy involved was black or hispanic. My son just stared at me blankly, and then said, "I don't know! He's just Jimmy!"
In their innocence, children do not see race, skin color and such differences. They just see people. Simple.
Ryan
Don't . . . Quit . . . Trying!!
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