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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the article:
"Nearly all of the more than 400 schools in Maryland that were 99 percent or 100 percent minority were in Prince George’s or Baltimore City, according to a separate analysis by The Washington Post of federal enrollment data. A handful of schools were in Montgomery and Baltimore counties."

Well, the problem with this article is that the population of PG County and Baltimore City is majority minority.  I'm not sure that you can say the schools are segregated.  It's more like the schools reflect the local population.

I hate that the article implies something sinister, as if this is by design.  It seems to me there is more of an issue of self-segregation on the part of all races.

[b]I would add that I think the statistics about low-income have to do with the fact that the higher income people who live in both of those districts, PG and Baltimore City, tend to send their kids to private schools.
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I would also add that I don't think it is true that the underperformance of those schools has to do with financial resources.  I believe the amount per-child spent in PG County is the same, if not more, than the per-child amount spent in Montgomery County.

Basically, articles like this I think are somewhat misleading and offer no solutions to the problem of underperforming schools in PG or Baltimore.[/quote]

This,  we live amongst doctors, lawyers and highly educated high earning professionals in PG and they all have their kids in private.[/quote]

And even though I understand why that is the case, it still undermines the idea of public education and equality.  And it is a form of segregation, not necessarily by race, but by class.  It seems to me that this flies in the face of what we like to say we are about in America -- social mobility and freedom of opportunity.  But if even so-called liberal, progressive people are fine with the idea that a good education is something you have to buy, something that really hinges on the means of your parents, then I don't see things improving in this country.

Sure, no one wants to "risk" or "experiment" with their kids, but I feel like people talk the talk, but no one wants to actually invest personally in their ideals.  If you really are for equality in education and equal opportunity for all, then you should be against (in theory and practice) this idea that you have to buy your way into a good school system, either by being able to afford a million dollar house in an area that has a good 'public' school (I put 'public' in quotes, because of the fact that the locations that feed to those schools are cost-prohibitive) or by being able to afford private school.

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I agree with you. This is an issue I struggle with as I look at the next few years. [/quote]

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