Newest Thoughts- Boarding life
Is there a connection between being a student of color and being a boarder at the cambridge school? I think without a doubt there is. The vast majority of students that identify as people of color are boarding students. This leads me to wonder what part of the admissions process causes this to happen. Is admissions recruiting kids of color into their boarding program related to their applicants living request? Are there preconceived notions of those students environments? Do some of the students of color that are applying to a Weston independent school have particular needs requiring boarding. Regardless of the reason, it seems to me that this phenomena brings up some interesting questions. Are the patterns caused by socioeconomic inequality? Are they social or preset requirements of admissions or of certain families? Who knows?
Something to note is that this is my interpretation of the situation and I have not yet conferred with admissions about the numbers and reasoning behind those numbers.
I would appreciate some boarding student, student of color input and CSW Student input in general. comment, speculate, agree, disagree!
THANKS
-MAX
I think your brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI'm a boarder and I think this is very true (and evident). I don't know enough about the admission process to comment on if it is intentional or just down to the people who apply but it's a good topic to bring up. I know that admissions is trying to get more boarders at the moment (for the new dorm) so it would be good if they could do a similar project but for students of colour.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment Thomas. Yeah I will talk to them about it soon
ReplyDeleteI think that alot of students of color end up boarding because they are either from outside the U.s so boarding is an obvious choice or that they are on scholarship and many scholarships require boarding (you could probably go into a whole new blog on institutionalized racism and why scholarships are predominantly students o color)
ReplyDeleteMax, you really do get it.
ReplyDeleteI came across a satirical site that gets at a lot that you talk about. It addresses issues that pertain to poor black kids, and how certain white people think it's ok to address those issues; which to a certain extent, you can understand (due to the fact that I heard you say the exact words Bartunde used). Thank you for this terrific blog. I'd go nuts if you didn't get an A for whatever class this is for.
Here is the link: http://poorblackkid.com/