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Oh goodness. Being an old (very old) lady I went through school during segregation. It was a very large school. My graduating class was over 400. Desegregation began two years later but it trickled down so slowly. My four boys were still in classes that had no blacks and even the few Latinos were treated badly by some students. My youngest sons, P.D. and David were "Invited" to attend an all black school for a year. David chose to do that and for the school year he was the "freak" of the school bussed in everyday--small for his age, very pale skin, blue eyes and curly blond hair. The other students called him Cupid and during playground time the girls chased him all over the playground with some game they made up about whoever caught him won the game. Being a 5th grade boy, he did not like the game at all. The teachers didn't seem to help him out at all. He was glad when that year was over--not because everyone else was black but because it was not monitored and executed properly.

posted by TAPS. on July 2, 2021 at 1:38 AM | link to this | reply

I suppose being Australian I cannot expect to understand nor is it my business and anyway, I have to remember that in a lot of areas in Australia Aboriginal children were denied all school up until the 1950's

posted by Kabu on July 1, 2021 at 12:21 PM | link to this | reply

Never heard of that before we used to sit amid gipsies no prob.

posted by C_C_T on July 1, 2021 at 11:17 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Re: COVID has made it the mask table versus the no mask table.

posted by Sherri_G on July 1, 2021 at 9:52 AM | link to this | reply

Good afternoon

This happened at both my high school in Oregon and my hubby's high school in Pennsylvania back in the early 80s. In fact, they had a Pennsylvania town that was also separated down the middle where the blacks lived on one side and the whites on the other. Whitsett is still like that even today.

posted by Sherri_G on July 1, 2021 at 9:52 AM | link to this | reply

Good Afternoon

We never had anything like this at our school.

posted by Goldiec on July 1, 2021 at 9:46 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Corbin

I'm not sure if things changed since then. If anything, COVID would have eliminated for now at least it due to social distancing.

They chose to do it.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on July 1, 2021 at 9:35 AM | link to this | reply

FormerStudentIntern

I found that with Latin Americans, , sitting together in the college lounge back in 1971-72. I wrote an editorial on it in Top of the Stairs. In the next months that followed, the military oriented older Student Government gave me trouble on funding. I was a classmate of the first black desegregated in sixth grade, half Italian. So, I've always had black friends with me. I did sit at the pretty and smart white kids table though - just neighborhood. Equality naturally with opportunity and not quirks I give.