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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Cafeteria Politics
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A reader contacted me with this story:
Her fifth-grade daughter attends a high-performing school in metro Atlanta. Her daughter listens to Radio Disney, watches Animal Planet, shops at Limited 2. Her friends share these interests, so she sits with them at lunch. Here’s the problem: she’s black and her friends are white. She says the black girls tell her she should sit at their table. They tell her she is acting white. According to her mother, some of the black girls now treat her horribly.
What’s a girl to do? Mom is especially interested in hearing from others who have experienced this and how they handled it.
UPDATE: Thanks everyone for your posts, especially Teacher2 who took this question to her students. I think the issue has been thoroughly discussed, so I’m turning off the comments.
