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I've been here 14 years now, and all of a sudden we turned around and all the white parents had gone," she said, speaking in Spanish.

Why should the woman stay and fight a system where people can be in this country for 14 years and continue to speak Spanish as if they are still in their homeland? No wonder the Braces didn't feel they could make friends or have your typical AMERICAN school experience for their children.

I'm black and I would have moved my child from this school. It isn't a race issue. You have to grab onto your own American culture where you can. You have to make opportunities for your kids to experience their culture and to have normal school experiences and not subjugate every damn thing that made this country great to the lowest common denominator of people who have no intention of assimilating into the culture.

It looks like this woman put up the good fight for a number of years and just decided her children's education wasn't worth sacrificing on the altar of multiculturalism. Good for her.

"It isn't a race issue. You have to grab onto your own American culture where you can."

Exactly. There is no "American culture" that covers the land. You don't instantly have a cultural connection to someone whose skin color happens to match your own. It is shared experiences that create a connection, and from there the culture is whatever accumulates.

Going to a school because everyone is white or Latino or black is POINTLESS, even to make a statement of some kind (much like the poor and blue collar South Bostonians and Roxbury residents--as opposed to the libs who could afford to send their kids to private schools so they didn't have to take part in the bussing experiment they advocated--were FORCED to "make a statement" about integration. It's not that integration doesn't work, it's that people, KIDS, don't like being forced out of their community to make a political statement. How can we crow about "building communities" and then deny kids the right to go to LOCAL schools, where they make connections with the kids in their communities, and thus their parents connect, etc.

You pick a place to live, and you create your corner of American culture. Basing that culture on skin color is moronic, unless one thinks skin can talk.