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You’re all just arguing about apples vs apples. Most low performers tend to cluster among certain racial groups and tend to live in certain neighborhoods. Most high performers tend to come from households in certain racial groups and neighborhoods. Yes, there are outliers outside of these norms but they don’t represent a large population. So whether the BoE says diversity or academic performance, they are targeting the SAME groups.[/quote]

There are two different definitions of diversity being used here.     [b]The MCPS definition of diversity is a large fraction of Hispanic and AA students. [/b]     The second (and more common) definition of diversity is students from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds.

I consider my majority non-white W feeder middle school (Cabin John) to be both diverse (by the second definition) and high-performing.       Walking down the hallways you see a large number of ethnic groups from Asian (and not just Chinese and Indian), to Middle Eastern, to kids of black African and Caribbean immigrants, to kids of Greek and Russian parents .    (Our school also includes a large number of special needs students).      I happy to be able to send my kids to a diverse and high-performing school.[/quote]

No, it's not. It might be DCUM's idea of MCPS's idea, but it's not MCPS's idea.

This is what MCPS considers:

[i]School Demographic Profile includes the racial/ethnic composition of a
school’s student population, the percentage of students participating in the
Free and Reduced-price Meals System (FARMS) and English for Speakers
of Other Languages (ESOL) programs, and school mobility rates.[/i]

Is Cabin John MS a diverse school? In some ways, yes. In some ways, no.[/quote]

lol - diversity at Cabin John?

MCPS cares about FARMs, ESOL, sped and minority status.  In many cases, there is overlap (quite a bit) with the aforementioned categories.

Cabin John MS
ESOL - under 5%
FARMs - 7.2%
SPED - 14%

white - 42.8%
Asian - 31.6%
a sprinkling of Hispanics, blacks and mixed races

Unless Asians and whites are ESOL, FARMs or SPED, they don't count as diverse.   This is a perfect example of a school that MCPS would love to redistrict.   too many whites/Asians, too many wealthy families

It is what it is. I get it.

But the definition of diversity has its own meaning in the school system. [/quote]

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