Also, Wilfried Schaum, thank you posting information about the movie Toxi and the other personal experiences that you shared.

Is this movie dubbed in English?

Also, I agree that children of different races and ethnicities {in this context, I mean Latinos/Latinas} can help reduce prejudicial attitudes and misinformation. However, if the interracial school has a school board, an administration, faculty, and support staff {excluding the lunch ladies and janitors] who are White, and who have not acknowledged and worked through the Euro-centric and prejudicial attitudes that they grew up with, then attending an interracial school will not be a great experience for non-White children.

Also, if the curriculum and textbooks are still Euro-centric and short on accurate, indepth information about non-European nations and the contributions and history of non-White peoples, then in my opinion, the student population of the school being integrated doesn't matter very much.

Furthermore, because of a multiplicity of economic and psycho-social reasons children usually still have a segregated experience in school that are racially integrated but which place children in tracks of classes as a result of those students' results in placement tests.

Among these economic & psycho-social reasons was that schools then weren't integrated until junior high school [around 10 years old]and I don't have any doubt that the elementary schools attended by White students were academically better than the elementary schools attended by Black students. In addition, the White students in segregated schools had White teachers had role models, and did note have to work through issues of group inferiority...and there are a host of other advantages these White students had over the Black students they would encounter and compete academically with in junior high school and high school...

To demonstrate what I mean by integrated schools still being segregated, although my public high school [which had 3,000 students] was 50% African American, and about 50% White, because I did well in the academic placement test, my high school classes had only 2 other Black students out of thirty students total. These academic groupings were identified by some letter in the alphabet-though the highest academically achieving group wasn't the "A" group and the lowest wasn't "Z". However, the lowest academically group was all Black.

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Again, thank you, Wilfried, Wolfgang, and others for your comments. It's good to know good people who ever and where ever they are.

Best wishes,

Azizi