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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Here's a perfect example -- my preschool-aged and early elementary DDs both love reading books and going to the library. We'll probably do it tomorrow, like we do on many Saturdays. We've been to many libraries all over MoCo, and every time we've gone, the kids section is mostly white and Asian kids. Where are the black and hispanic kids? Hispanics outnumber whites in MCPS, so I'd expect to see a lot of them at the library. [/quote]

Have you considered the problem is your highly segregated neighborhood? I'm going to take my kids to the downtown Silver Spring library today, like we do many Saturdays. I expect to find my children to be some of the only white children in the building, as they are most Saturdays. The majority of the kids at the library will be Black, and most of those will be first and second generation immigrants.

I'm sure the other parents at the Silver Spring library are wondering where the white kids are, and assuming that white families just don't value education as much as they do. [/quote]

This!

We are walking distance to that same library. But we aren’t white. When we go to the library on Arcola instead, the kids are mainly Latino. [/quote]

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