Does anyone's kid go to the Science and Engineering high school in Pocket? If so, what is your experience? Why is there no PTA? Is bullying an issue? What's the experience of female students? I see the campus is 64% male.
I've seen a few questions about being a person of color (POC) at Wave Gotik Treffen (WGT) in Leipzig and felt I should share my experience. I am a tall African American woman from California who attended WGT. I am a goth, etc. who has also lived in Europe (including Eastern Europe) for a long time and speaks 5 languages. I live in the US now though.
I loved the WGT environment! The beautiful outfits, great music, lovely city, wonderful food, and LGBTQ+ open environment. I was stared at a lot - although I am accustomed to that. I also saw a "handful" of other black attendees - 1 man and a few women (one black French, one Black American living in Europe). I want to say maybe 6 in total - and of course there are mixed people too so who knows.
Sometimes photographers would seek me out for a photo since I stood out. I don't seek that attention though since I am an introverted goth after all. There was one time when I was at the camp site at WGT where all the food is located, and a white male walked up to me close to my face and aggressively stared me down with a mean look on his face. He came from afar like out of nowhere to do that. That was scary and clearly racist. A white male partner of mine stepped in between to make him step back. Also when I was dancing once, a woman approached me and asked if "I was just playing dress up".
Otherwise, I felt people were generally friendly. I would like to see more people of color of all sorts so that it is an even more comfortable environment for everyone. The goth culture is awesome - and I think many people forget that people of color create goth music too (Hocico-Mexican, Martin Gore's dad is black, Bad Brains (punk not goth) and others). We exist too.