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When I was principal at a school (in the 1970s) an...

2009-06-12T08:52:20.754-05:00

When I was principal at a school (in the 1970s) and hired an African American kindergarten teacher midyear - in an all white school - the parents were so surprised when they came for Parents Night. Not one of those little children ever told their parents that their new teacher was Black. It never occurred to them to say so - they loved her. Little kids like the short answers.

Same school - we had a family with several children directly from Kenya - and they found great acceptance among our school families.

It's funny, I had almost the exact same thing ...

2009-06-11T23:12:43.903-05:00

It's funny, I had almost the exact same thing happen to me today. I've had that happen in one form or another a couple of times at the zoo too, always young kids and the like. Luckily I really never run into anybody being rude towards us, so I'm happy about that.

I think it was very sweet that he was so satisfied...

2009-06-11T22:10:09.461-05:00

I think it was very sweet that he was so satisfied with your answer. We get asked a lot if Ellie is adopted. Right now it doesn't bother me so much, but I wonder when she's old enough to understand the question if it will. Of course, tonight someone asked if we were her GRANDPARENTS -- UGH -- do I look that bad?