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Originally posted by Sistermadly
I didn't go to a prep school, but I was bused from a poor inner-city neighborhood to a public school in a very wealthy area of my home town. While I definitely experienced a lot of culture shock in the beginning, I can honestly say that experience was the defining moment of my life, and helped to shape the person I became as an adult. However, in some ways my experience did throw up walls between me and the kids in my neighborhood. In fact, I got more grief from the kids in my neighborhood than I ever got from the rich white kids at my school.
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This was my experience from 7th to 12th grade here in LoCal. I was also bused and I also believe that it threw up walls, but there were also walls between me and some of the kids who rode the bus w/me (there were only three black kids in honors English in my HS, including myself, as an example).
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