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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Money, less poverty and diversity[/quote]

Howard County is 34% white and 25% black, so let’s not have the idea Howard County isn’t diverse. But Howard County doesn’t have the amount of poverty other counties have to deal with.

Another pro about Howard County schools is that they tinker way less in regards to their curricula. I have not heard anyone complain about it whereas Curriculum 2.0 was a disaster in Montgomery county and had to be scrapped.

The downside to Howard County is that it redistricts A LOT. Like every 5 years. There are stories of kids living in the same house being redistricted 5 times from K to 12.

If you want to live in Howard County then buy a house that’s close to the high school you want. Otherwise, you’re fodder for redistricting.[/quote]

Yes and 2-3 schools are 70+ white and/or 50+ Asian while others are 50%+ black. Dont kid yourselves here. [/quote]

Very few counties will have an even distribution of races across their school systems, especially when a good chunk of your land is rural.

As these things go, Howard County has some schools with a great balance, Atholton, Howard, and Reservoir in particular. They are there if you want it. Most of the other high schools are at least 10% black, which isn’t bad for a school system that’s 25% black. Not a single high school is over 50% black.

Glenelg is the main outlier at 70% white. It will stay that way unless a bunch of other races decide they want to live on well water far from DC and Baltimore.

Howard County has a decent racial mix. It’s better than Montgomery County at least.[/quote]

OM has a 81% MINORITY POPULATION, of which, 44% is black. River Hill is 44% WHITE and 56% minority population (with 35% being asian).

As someone who attended a HoCo HS, and it was my 4th HS attended in 3 different states, there is nothing diverse about a majority of the schools in HoCo. 2 might be a real mix but most are not.[/quote]

I'm not sure where you're coming from. Earlier PPs have posted school demographics for HoCo and it's a diverse school system by every meaning of the word diversity, except perhaps socioeconomic. Blacks make up 13% of the US population but 25% of HoCo schools.

What is diversity to you?[/quote]

Each school needs to be diverse. By and large, HoCo is diverse (when you look at the whole) but the individual schools are NOT. Blacks are concentrated in a few schools. Asians are concentrated in a few schools. Latinos are concentrated in a few schools. Whites are in every school- some nominally. There is not a huge socioeconomic diversity within each school. Ask any teacher who has taught at multiple schools within the county. Even at OM the wealthy kids from Allview Estates are living in houses around the 500-600k mark, only as of recently. 500-600K house and associated income would be extremely poor in other schools.

I lived in areas that had only 3-4 HS with a larger population than that of Columbia. Columbia has 12? They are all little enclaves of their surroundings and that was purposeful.

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Sounds like you’re expecting perfection. It’s very rare to find a large school system with an equal distribution of races. I can’t think of one off the top of my head unless it’s predominantly one or two races. Howard County isn’t perfect, but it’s better than most.[/quote]

Its not just racial diversity as pointed out in my post.

And yes, my experience at larger public HS were much better than HoCo schools. 100%. Its called a bubble for a reason.

I never said perfection but most HoCo parents are not willing to do two things:
1. Bus their kids 
2. Let poor people into their communities, thus "decreasing their home value"

HoCo prides itself on diversity but its a false pride and your kids grow up thinking they've grown up with a diverse cohort of people and backgrounds but they haven't and they do NOT understand the privilege of money and connections. They may understand it in theory, but they do not understand it in reality and they go out into the world- in powerful positions thanks to money and connection- thinking that they come from some beacon of diversity and it is reckless. [/quote]

So tell us.  Which public school system in Maryland is the best?  You obviously don't like HCPSS.  Some people would say MCPS, but I have a feeling you don't like them either.[/quote]

I dont have experience with MCPS, I have experience with HCPS, specifically Hammond, and as I stated in PREVIOUS POSTS there are 2-3 diverse schools in HoCo but not most of them. 2/3 out of 12 is not acceptable. [/quote]

MCPS has more segregation than Howard County and has maybe 4 diverse schools out of 25. Multiple MCPS high schools have fewer than 8% white kids.

I don’t think any school system in Maryland is acceptable to you. You can bash HCPSS if you want, but it’s objectively one of the best school systems in Maryland, and it does diversity better than most. Otherwise, name me one.[/quote]

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