What do you know about the Scotland Community in Potomac?

[Anonymous]

It seems isolated as is the other town house community there. But can someone share some more insight?
TIA

[Anonymous]

When I was growing up in Potomac, that was where the lower income families lived. People used to call it the Potomac Ghetto. I will say no more.

[Anonymous]

Where do thos kids go to school.

[Anonymous]

They go to Churchill high school. Not sure about middle and elementary. There was a broo hah hah a few years back between the "potomac" kids and the "scotland" kids at the high school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They go to Churchill high school. Not sure about middle and elementary. There was a broo hah hah a few years back between the "potomac" kids and the "scotland" kids at the high school

Like what?

[Anonymous]

Is it low-income housing? That's what I always thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They go to Churchill high school. Not sure about middle and elementary. There was a broo hah hah a few years back between the "potomac" kids and the "scotland" kids at the high school

Like what?

Fighting - some tried to portray it as racial or socioeconomic. Not sure who started it.

[Anonymous]

This is the unfortunate side of DCUM: a site where people can post nasty, even racist, comments anonymously. You can google Scotland community and read the history for yourself. There is no need to go fishing on this website to get information. There have been posts on the community previously on DCUM as well. Grow up, OP.

[Anonymous]

I didn't realize there was a big Scottish group in the DC metro. Where do the ex-pats watch the games?

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061700588.html

[Anonymous]

Why is it still domiated by African American families, since it is pen to everyone. Most communities in MC are more mixed.

[Anonymous]

If the OP really wants to learn more about Scotland, do like you would any neighborhood. Visit and speak with the neighbors. Ask them if they really have the Lochness monster there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it still domiated by African American families, since it is pen to everyone. Most communities in MC are more mixed.

b/c its still ok to have 'historically black' communities, but not ok to still have 'historically white" ones

[Anonymous]

It's a low-income community set aside by the county. For reasons not wirth debating in this forum, yes, the residents are primarily black. Yes, they also have a much higher crime rate in that community. I associate that with poverty, and the isolation of being poor in an affluent area, and not to race.

But I would not choose to live there. And we looked at a townhouse in a bordering neighborhood a few years back and were really disturbed to see everyone had bars on their back windows on the side of the street that backed to Scotland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a low-income community set aside by the county. For reasons not wirth debating in this forum, yes, the residents are primarily black. Yes, they also have a much higher crime rate in that community. I associate that with poverty, and the isolation of being poor in an affluent area, and not to race.

But I would not choose to live there. And we looked at a townhouse in a bordering neighborhood a few years back and were really disturbed to see everyone had bars on their back windows on the side of the street that backed to Scotland.

This is my question, why is it still primarily black. Are low income residents of other races choosing not to live there?