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Haaaaa, that is funny! My Dad is a middle school teacher, and we have plenty of teacher friends; I know how happy they all are when summer comes round!
Oh, man, that's hilarious... As a fellow teacher, I can honestly say I'm far happier to reach summer break than I ever was as a student. I also firmly believe it prevents a lot of homicides.
(Working in the Bronx and living in NYC, I forget how white parts of the country are; I never really noticed when I lived in suburban Connecticut.)
When I left the Mid-Atlantic to come up to New England, particularly when I was new, I was very suspicious. I worked in an education facility and we worked with school after school where the kids were all white. I was al "What have you people done with the brown kids?"
New England just isn't very thoroughly integrated - for some good historical reasons and also some shitty historical reasons. But it's actually getting more and more so. The city I live in right now is pretty darn diverse, with lots of recent immigration from East Asians, South Asians, Dominicans, Haitians and Africans in addition to people of color who have been here longer. But Portsmouth (where this was made) had about a 6% population of people of color. That's just the way it was.
What took me longer to learn was that racial homogeneity didn't mean economic homogeneity. There is some intense poverty and deprivation in Northern New England, in communities which are all white. So, kind of unlike the stereotypes where I grew up, you can't assume that kids that are white are relatively well off compared to their neighbors.
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