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[quote=Anonymous]Op, I’m Latina (born and raised in the US)  and DH is white. He wanted to live in close-in Bethesda while I was unhappy with the lack of diversity in the public schools. I was treated really badly in school (literally called racist names like wetback and spic by my classmates and not treated well by my teachers) and did not want my kids to be those kids in their classes, as the majority of Bethesda interacts with Latinos as their service workers.

We tried our highly rated public school and decided to move to private school. I didn’t like how parents are defensive about how our school was so diverse without recognizing the lack of African American students and US Latinos and Asian Americans (lots of international diversity, that was true). The parent group which focused on diversity met at 10 am on Friday mornings (when I was working), which signaled to me that they didn’t really care if parents were involved.

Private school has more racial and ethnic diversity. Economic diversity did not exist at our public school, and probably not at our private school either. My child doesn’t have many other Latino kids in their class, but has kids who are African-American and Asian (also has international kids, but they aren’t the only source of diversity). And the school talks about race and skin color more explicitly - I was so pleased my young ES child came home talking about the biological underpinnings of skin color. The parent group on diversity meets outside of working hours.

Anyway, if private is an option for you, pick a neighborhood you like/convenient, and then you have an option other than the public school.[/quote]

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