
Ask Code Switch: Parents Just Don't Understand
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The Story of Renee and His Friends
When renee got about the fifth grade, that crunchy private school where people didn't talk about race, merged with an old money private school. It was an old money school that was absorbing some brown kids, which it nevereally had to make room for before. So one day some administrators at this newly merged school saw what was happening and they sent letters home addressed to the parents of the students of color. When renee's parents got that letter, and remember, they didn't want people to think of renee as a kid of com in the first place, they lost their ship. They were so mad that they wanted to pull him out of the school.
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