{"id":223,"date":"2014-10-28T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/10\/two-schools-in-one-not-in-a-good-way.html"},"modified":"2015-02-26T23:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T05:11:18","slug":"two-schools-in-one-not-in-a-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/10\/two-schools-in-one-not-in-a-good-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Two schools in one! (not in a good way)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Here in Illinois, school districts don\u2019t necessarily follow city limits. \u00a0The high school district (because primary and secondary education is generally through two separate school districts) was originally based on the township, but grew beyond that, and now has half a dozen high schools in several neighboring suburbs.<\/p>\n

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My son\u2019s school draws largely from three areas: \u00a0neighborhoods in my own town, mostly upper-middle-class, mostly native-born white with a smattering of Asians (Korean, Filipino, Indian); neighborhoods in the adjacent suburb, a Levittown-type area of small postwar ranch houses, with, by and large, a mix of native-born and Eastern European-immigrant whites. \u00a0And a cluster of apartment complexes, which, when we first arrived in the area nearly 20 years ago, had recently transformed into nearly completely Mexican-immigrant, with a police substation and Mariachi music playing whenever we would walk through there on our way from our first apartment to the Baskin Robbins. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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The school itself is reflective of this ethnic mix. \u00a0At the open house night, there were a number of Mexican families with small children in tow (presumably there was no babysitter). \u00a0At the parent information night for incoming freshmen, the principals\u2019 speeches were translated into Spanish. \u00a0All the mailings that come to our house are bi-lingual.<\/div>\n
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The music department concert that we attended over the weekend? \u00a0Not so much.<\/div>\n
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Sure, it\u2019s not a big surprise that the orchestra would be fairly \u201cnon-diverse,\u201d as they say (though with a good number of Polish and a few Asian names). \u00a0You have to start your violin lessons young. \u00a0Band-instrument lessons you can take at school, though, so I would have expected a bit more diversity. \u00a0And choir? \u00a0Well, you have to meet the fine arts requirement somehow, and, besides, these were after-school groups as well as the classes, so you\u2019d think this would be more diverse. \u00a0But nope. \u00a0Well, there were a few Spanish names, and a few ambiguously Spanish or Filipino, but very few.<\/div>\n
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No comment here. \u00a0Sure, my pro-open-immigration troll will tell me that even discussing this is racist, but that\u2019s how it is.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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