While talking to the guidance counselor at my school about race and class, I was shocked to hear that some of the issues were brought into school by the parents of students. She , said, “We do occasionally hear from parents. They will imply that they don’t want their children associating with certain students. During Back To School Night, they will approach the teacher and ask who their child is befriending, with the implication that they don’t want them befriending the ‘poor’ or ‘underprivileged’ students.” I felt suddenly sad when I heard this news, that the parents were the cause of any prejudice on the part of their children. As a teacher, I was expecting the others teachers to recount numerous stories from their classrooms of incidences in which their students were victims or perpetrators of racism, or prejudice toward their peers. It never even occurred to me that I would be discussing the parents’ problems and issues with the guidance counselor. This conversation opened my eyes to the way that some of these parents are training their children to be bigots, and that saddened me more than any story of a students’ misjudgment of morals.