An interesting article about MCPS student population

[Anonymous]

I live in Howard county and the best schools in the county have an ever increasing Asian population. Lots of Indians and Chinese families. Many of these schools used to be majority white but now even their demographics are changing!

[Anonymous]

This is why Trump is so popular - fear of America getting less white. For those who fear this: might I suggest moving to a Trump stronghold? You will be much happier there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know two families who recently moved to Howard County. One is Black the other Latino. Now what?

West Virginia? Take up an oxy habit?

[Anonymous]

I'm one that started the major comment people have been jumping off of

Let me break it down for you

By the way Fairfax County has a similar situation

In both counties there are three types of areas

1. Rich mostly white and asian areas where people have no idea what is going on

2. Crappy areas with low HHI terrible test scores and large black/hispanic populations

3. The most important transitional areas aka ground zero. These are areas that have seen hispanic populations explode over the last 15 years (remember hispanic population has DOUBLED the last 15 years and is now #1 in both Fairfax County and Montgomery County. These are the areas where white flight is occuring. People in #1 have no clue this is going on
Whites are fleeing to Howard and Loudoun and/or going private in droves

Something has to give here folks

Standard of Living in Fairfax and Montgomery has gone down the last 15 years. The richest counties are now Loudoun and Howard counties. You do the math

Again for those of you in category 1 you need to wake the heck up before Fairfax and Montgomery reach a death spiral of more and more government services required = higher and highers taxes.... I mean personally I think we are already there.

Wake the heck up

[Anonymous]

couple edits

I'm talking about school populations

and to further the death sprial while higher taxes are needed average income is going down so the middle class are going to be asked to do even more to serve the low income tidal wave and baby boom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Howard county and the best schools in the county have an ever increasing Asian population. Lots of Indians and Chinese families. Many of these schools used to be majority white but now even their demographics are changing!

Western Hoco (glenwood region) is still mostly white so you all could move there! It's in the middle of nowhere though.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only person that still has faith in MCPS?

[Anonymous]

I know several families living in Howard and they like it. I'd really consider it if we hadn't just moved two years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only person that still has faith in MCPS?

Well, here's my issue. I actually think my kids are getting a great education, but their elementary school is almost at 150% capacity. I think that's deplorable. Yes, it's RCES and I did comment on that earlier DuFief thread. The county has a "plan", which I put in quotes because it won't help my kids who will be out of there before it's implemented, and once it is implemented, it will no longer be helpful due to population growth. I'm sad to see my kids in overcrowded schools with no tangible short term plan to address it.
Bright side is that the teachers have been wonderful.

So I can see why some move or go private.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my goodness, you guys DO realize how racist you sound, right? "Hispanics are coming, there goes the neighborhood!" I hate to break it to you, but in the youngest generation, white people are a minority of the population. This means that most urban areas will become mostly non-white. But don't worry! White people don't have the market cornered on moral values or ambition. Also, FARMs kids are not all losers and dregs. In fact, I am a former white FARMs kid and I grew up and now have a HHI that is more than 20x what I grew up with. Things will change, and your white skin won't save you from hard work and adaptation.

Of course they realize it. They know, don't care, and are proud of it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only person that still has faith in MCPS?

Well, here's my issue. I actually think my kids are getting a great education, but their elementary school is almost at 150% capacity. I think that's deplorable. Yes, it's RCES and I did comment on that earlier DuFief thread. The county has a "plan", which I put in quotes because it won't help my kids who will be out of there before it's implemented, and once it is implemented, it will no longer be helpful due to population growth. I'm sad to see my kids in overcrowded schools with no tangible short term plan to address it.
Bright side is that the teachers have been wonderful.

So I can see why some move or go private.

I think my child is getting a good education too. She's in a title 1 school (I'm not sure if it's overcrowded), but I love that there's only 17 kids in the classroom. My daughter is only in kindergarten, but she's picked up so much since school started. I love when she reads her stories to me or tells me random facts she learned in social studies. I think she'll be fine in MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that a lot of white families had kids in MCPS and those kids graduated. And the majority of new arrivals to the county have not been white. Therefore white numbers went down and others went up.

I see this in my own neighborhood. Most of my white neighbors are older couples - emptynesters. Every time one of them moves out - a non-white family moves in.

This.

It's been the opposite in my neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that a lot of white families had kids in MCPS and those kids graduated. And the majority of new arrivals to the county have not been white. Therefore white numbers went down and others went up.

I see this in my own neighborhood. Most of my white neighbors are older couples - emptynesters. Every time one of them moves out - a non-white family moves in.

Just for the record this is my post above - and stating these facts does not make me a racist. In fact, we are a family of color that moved into the neighborhood too. I was just trying to answer the question that OP posed. Trying to figure out why demographics are changing does not make you racist. It makes you curious.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that a lot of white families had kids in MCPS and those kids graduated. And the majority of new arrivals to the county have not been white. Therefore white numbers went down and others went up.

I see this in my own neighborhood. Most of my white neighbors are older couples - emptynesters. Every time one of them moves out - a non-white family moves in.

This.

It's been the opposite in my neighborhood.

opposite how? white families moving in and people of color moving out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my goodness, you guys DO realize how racist you sound, right? "Hispanics are coming, there goes the neighborhood!" I hate to break it to you, but in the youngest generation, white people are a minority of the population. This means that most urban areas will become mostly non-white. But don't worry! White people don't have the market cornered on moral values or ambition. Also, FARMs kids are not all losers and dregs. In fact, I am a former white FARMs kid and I grew up and now have a HHI that is more than 20x what I grew up with. Things will change, and your white skin won't save you from hard work and adaptation.

It's pretty simplistic to see all of the PPs as racist. There are some prettt valid concerns about overpopulation and school overcrowding.

Honestly it is an issue for people of ALL races when the schools are overcrowded and the teachers are overworked.