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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And LOL at you all claiming these schools are diverse. They’re as diverse as a box of milk toast with a bag of rice next to it. [/quote]

Which schools are "these schools"? My kid's MCPS high school, in Ganglandia, is diverse by any measure of diversity, except I guess maybe kids from super-rich families are underrepresented.[/quote]

The post is literally about W schools. Keep up.[/quote]

[b]W schools have a lack of diversity.[/b] Hence why the Board of Education raises the issue of redrawing boundaries once in a while.

W schools do have students who have a sense of entitlement and break rules without a fear of consequences. There’s a large percentage of students with cash to spend on drugs.[/quote]
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Compared to many other schools in MCPS.[/u] Whitman, Wootton, Churchill, and WJ are less diverse than many other schools in MCPS. In the bigger picture, though, there is no school in MCPS that is not diverse. Certainly far more diverse than the public schools I went to, growing up.[/quote]

Define “diverse.” <5% FARMS isn’t exactly diverse in my book.[/quote]

There are many aspects of diversity. Household income (poor/not-poor) is one of them. It is not the only one.[/quote]

So then tell me how W schools are so diverse.[/quote]

Even Whitman, which is the whitest high school in MCPS, is 40% non-white.[/quote]

Non-White doesn’t mean diversity if the remaining 60% is Asian.[/quote]
But, it's not.  Whitman Asian population is 15% ; Hispanic 12%. Fair number of biracial - 8%.

The Black population is tiny, though.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04427.pdf[/quote]

Most of the white people are not white btw. Lot of foreigners who identify as white. For instance three of my neighbors look white, but they literall are like Borat [/quote]

Eastern Europeans are white. What the hell? At least be an educated racist.[/quote][/quote]

When used to measure advantage, race is the wrong metrics.  Non English speakers and immigrants are disadvantaged.  That's the point.  So we as a society are not helping by proliferating nonsense along race lines.[/quote]
I'm willing to bet that the majority, if not all, of the Eastern Europeans who live in Bethesda have advanced degrees who knew how to speak English when they immigrated here.  Even if they didn't know how to speak English, I bet they knew how to read it. That goes a long way helping your kids at school.

My parents didn't know any English when we immigrated here, and they have a ES/MS level education.  So, no helping with HW or anything related to school. Never went to a parent/teacher conference.   I'm Asian, btw.[/quote]

Both are economic migrants who made a choice.  Both are likely better off than they would be in their countries.  Your point is a bit moot. It's like saying one came from an educated wealthy family that helps their kids, the other didn't - well, we have families like both of those in this country that are not immigrants.[/quote]

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