Lakewood and Stone Mill Elementary - high % of Asians?

[Anonymous]

You will find all types of people within all types of groups and schools/community. Have met some of the sweetest parents and had to deal unfortunately with ones on the other end all in the same school. Good luck .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm moving to the DC area this year and in the market for a house in the Rockville/Potomac area. I'm curious about Lakewood and Stone Mill. The % of Asians at both is around 50% which is quite high, and I've heard there's a large Chinese community. Does anyone know whether it's mostly first generation immigrants? Asking as a 2nd generation Chinese American who mostly speaks English at home, and doesn't intend to foster the same type of academic intensity as 1st generation immigrants may be inclined to do (like my parents did with me).

Is there a reason to be dissuaded from moving into the school zone based on the demographics? I don't want to throw my kids into an overly competitive environment in elementary school. What are people's experiences who have kids who went here?

I hope this doesn't come across as racist or insensitive in any way...I'm genuinely wondering about how it might impact the school and my kid's experience. I have plenty of Asian friends, both first generation and not, but 50% just seems like a lot.

Am 2nd generation with kids who go to school here. It's wonderful. The families are great--the kids are nice and well-rounded. Not competitive--people do their own things and the kids are happy and well-adjusted. Some 1st generation parents are inquisitve about magnet schools but they are outliers not the norm.

[Anonymous]

OP, you are correct. Those schools are very heavily chinese first generation immigrants, along with the other Wootton feeder schools (Travilah, etc).

Everyone is polite and friendly, but if you desire a sense of "community" where families hang out together, you won't get it as much at these schools.

If you go closer into Potomac, at a school such as Wayside, the demographics are a little more even there. Still very heavily asian with a large jewish population as well.

For the true "community" experience, you will have to move into bethesda, or if that is out of your budget, somewhere such as Rachel Carson ES or Jones Lane ES in 20878.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are correct. Those schools are very heavily chinese first generation immigrants, along with the other Wootton feeder schools (Travilah, etc).

Everyone is polite and friendly, but if you desire a sense of "community" where families hang out together, you won't get it as much at these schools.

If you go closer into Potomac, at a school such as Wayside, the demographics are a little more even there. Still very heavily asian with a large jewish population as well.

For the true "community" experience, you will have to move into bethesda, or if that is out of your budget, somewhere such as Rachel Carson ES or Jones Lane ES in 20878.

The sense of community is very lacking that is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are correct. Those schools are very heavily chinese first generation immigrants, along with the other Wootton feeder schools (Travilah, etc).

Everyone is polite and friendly, but if you desire a sense of "community" where families hang out together, you won't get it as much at these schools.

If you go closer into Potomac, at a school such as Wayside, the demographics are a little more even there. Still very heavily asian with a large jewish population as well.

For the true "community" experience, you will have to move into bethesda, or if that is out of your budget, somewhere such as Rachel Carson ES or Jones Lane ES in 20878.

Come on, many of those other Bethesda or Potomac neighborhoods are heavily white and if you're Asian no you probably won't find that "community" there either. You can tell just by looking at the elementary sports teams at those schools which are parent-formed and they are almost exclusively white. We know a child who is Chinese-American and asked for years if he could be on one of the teams and was always told they were full even when new white kids came on the team all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are correct. Those schools are very heavily chinese first generation immigrants, along with the other Wootton feeder schools (Travilah, etc).

Everyone is polite and friendly, but if you desire a sense of "community" where families hang out together, you won't get it as much at these schools.

If you go closer into Potomac, at a school such as Wayside, the demographics are a little more even there. Still very heavily asian with a large jewish population as well.

For the true "community" experience, you will have to move into bethesda, or if that is out of your budget, somewhere such as Rachel Carson ES or Jones Lane ES in 20878.

Come on, many of those other Bethesda or Potomac neighborhoods are heavily white and if you're Asian no you probably won't find that "community" there either. You can tell just by looking at the elementary sports teams at those schools which are parent-formed and they are almost exclusively white. We know a child who is Chinese-American and asked for years if he could be on one of the teams and was always told they were full even when new white kids came on the team all the time.

Our family is asian american in a predominantly white school and my child is on all the school teams. When we initially joined the school, we too were excluded from many things, but we didn't use our race as an excuse. There is definitely an subconscious barrier that makes it harder for non-whites to break into white neighborhood cliques... but I don't like it when asians use that as an excuse for not getting in with the cool crowd in a white neighborhood. As long as you have decent social skills and aren't a weirdo, people are generally very friendly and welcoming, regardless of what race you are.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are correct. Those schools are very heavily chinese first generation immigrants, along with the other Wootton feeder schools (Travilah, etc).

Everyone is polite and friendly, but if you desire a sense of "community" where families hang out together, you won't get it as much at these schools.

If you go closer into Potomac, at a school such as Wayside, the demographics are a little more even there. Still very heavily asian with a large jewish population as well.

For the true "community" experience, you will have to move into bethesda, or if that is out of your budget, somewhere such as Rachel Carson ES or Jones Lane ES in 20878.

Come on, many of those other Bethesda or Potomac neighborhoods are heavily white and if you're Asian no you probably won't find that "community" there either. You can tell just by looking at the elementary sports teams at those schools which are parent-formed and they are almost exclusively white. We know a child who is Chinese-American and asked for years if he could be on one of the teams and was always told they were full even when new white kids came on the team all the time.

Our family is asian american in a predominantly white school and my child is on all the school teams. When we initially joined the school, we too were excluded from many things, but we didn't use our race as an excuse. There is definitely an subconscious barrier that makes it harder for non-whites to break into white neighborhood cliques... but I don't like it when asians use that as an excuse for not getting in with the cool crowd in a white neighborhood. As long as you have decent social skills and aren't a weirdo, people are generally very friendly and welcoming, regardless of what race you are.

WTH? Can you be more tone deaf? So white people are now the "cool crowd"?
We've all seen that there is sometimes a token Asian kid or other non-white appearing child on those teams. You've probably noticed it too on the teams you play there there maybe one or maybe two but that is not proportional to the Asian-Americans at those schools.
The AAPI families at DC's school had to join a different after school sports program after getting turned down by the white parent coaches. There were not not enough kids for a whole team. The parents and kids aren't weirdos and have good social skills. Some parents are immigrants but there were a bunch of second generation parents too. All different ethnicities.

[Anonymous]

OP I think you focused on possibly negative consequences but as others have pointed out there are also negative aspects of being in a majority white school area.

Our own family has had the best experience being at a school that is more diverse in Silver Spring/Wheaton. I don't know if you'd be open to that area but there are schools that are not majority white but have a nice community of Asian-Americans.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are correct. Those schools are very heavily chinese first generation immigrants, along with the other Wootton feeder schools (Travilah, etc).

Everyone is polite and friendly, but if you desire a sense of "community" where families hang out together, you won't get it as much at these schools.

If you go closer into Potomac, at a school such as Wayside, the demographics are a little more even there. Still very heavily asian with a large jewish population as well.

For the true "community" experience, you will have to move into bethesda, or if that is out of your budget, somewhere such as Rachel Carson ES or Jones Lane ES in 20878.

Come on, many of those other Bethesda or Potomac neighborhoods are heavily white and if you're Asian no you probably won't find that "community" there either. You can tell just by looking at the elementary sports teams at those schools which are parent-formed and they are almost exclusively white. We know a child who is Chinese-American and asked for years if he could be on one of the teams and was always told they were full even when new white kids came on the team all the time.

LOL, so two of mine white and Jewish were left out of those teams as well. Your post is ridiculous. That story never happened the way you are describing it.

The parents in elementary and possibly MS are the coaches of these teams. They put the kids on the teams who they are friends with it has always been this way.

Since I was not friends with those parents my kids were never asked to be on those teams. I did ask for my DS as he wanted to play t ball with his friends and soccer. He was "too quiet and shy" to play with his so called best buddy.

DS went off to play Divsion 1 Lax, State champ in track......

Parents are clicky and annoying.