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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a poc and live in Olney. We belong to the Sherwood cluster with kids in an Elementary school. I’m paying attention to the story very carefully. I don’t think Olney is a racist town. It is small town, homey, and yes, you see the same people everywhere from the OBGC fields to the football games and yes, even the breweries. I can only speak for what I observe at the elementary school. Many have (had) black lives matters or kindness lives here signs on their lawns, there’s a lot of talk about equity and inclusiveness including adopting a title 1 sister school. So I think people want to be in a right spot. But in practice what I observe is these same well-meaning and well-intentioned people have a very homogenous looking social groups. They’re all white or you might see one or two people of color mixed in but not many.  As I said, I don’t think it’s racism but I can’t put my finger on what the disconnect is. I’m also not saying that well-intentioned people can’t be racists, so don’t take it that way, just trying to work out my observations about my town and what I’m hearing is happening at a high school level into perspective.[/quote]

We are an Einstein family and there are lots of social groups that are basically white only here too.[/quote]

What do you think the disconnect? this might be for a different thread but I see how this can translate to the kids and I’m sure this is been happening for years and is what we’re seeing  at Sherwood. [/quote]

It's called self segregation.[/quote]

This.  Definitely self-segregation.

I live in Silver Spring neighborhood south of Olney and my kids are in a VERY diverse cluster.  Our middle school has a separate parent group for AA parents, and a separate group for Latino parents.  They meet separately and on separate days.  The parents meet up with other parents who are in the same ‘group’ versus one cohesive PTA for all parents.  [/quote]

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