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DP.  Of course it is.  OP is presumably worried about being surrounded by kids who expect to jet to Europe twice a year, be given a Benz at 17, etc.

Folks living in an $800k house in Potomac aren’t doing that or anything close.  They likely live comfortable lives with the occasional modest luxury, but nothing extravagant.  It could easily be a two Fed family or other people with good, but not incredibly high earning jobs.[/quote]

If I had a nickel for every time I've read a post like this on DCUM, I'd have a lot of nickels but still wouldn't be able to afford a $800,000 house in Potomac.[/quote]

and then you hear about them complaining about those horrible kids in Scotland.

It's so funny to have them come on here and just out themselves, like nobody needs to do it for them. [/quote]

And the irony is, YOU are the one who came here and brought up those kids... well well well. [/quote]

No, I'm a DP, and I'm the one who mentioned Scotland. I mentioned Scotland because it's part of Montgomery County history, and because it's relevant to Churchill. I'm going to repost this link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2007/01/14/the-scotland-of-the-doves-span-classbankheadthis-neighborhoods-roots-too-deep-to-be-put-downspan/17b2f8b0-79e6-45c0-ac0c-b137446c0f5a/

[i]So when the fight happened at Winston Churchill High School recently and four Scotland students were charged with assault, and Principal Joan C. Benz sent out a letter saying, "Every incident revolving around this two-month ordeal has been Black-on-Black violence," residents in the neighborhood just off Seven Locks Road knew she was talking about their community.

And the need arose once again, as in the pre-integration days, to explain why the children of Scotland deserved to attend Churchill, to sit beside the children from much wealthier parts of Potomac.

"There is a stigma on Scotland. . . . They see Scotland as a place of danger, a place they can stay away from," says the Rev. James Phifer, pastor of Scotland AME Zion Church, which was built in the community 101 years ago. "And all of that is hogwash."

So what is it like to live in a place that people use careful language to describe?

Code words. Veiled language. Words that are less distasteful, less offensive, used to say one thing but imply another. "They came from Scotland."

What does it really mean when a fight is broadened to describe the neighborhood from which the teenagers came?

"The problem is, we understand the code because she is putting Scotland down," resident Craig Dove says, referring to Benz. "What I picked up is that it is a clear sign saying they don't want our kids at that school. They are already stereotyped for being from here."

"They label Scotland kids different," says Cynthia Polite, whose son was involved in the fight. Polite says the principal has told her that she wants her son transferred. "That lady at that school, that lady is trying to get Scotland kids out of there."[/i]
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Dr. Joan Benz is a moron and should have been fired YEARS ago. I'm not sure what it took to make the administration get off their asses and finally fire her, I'm just glad they did.

She's 80 years old and still has segregation way of thinking. 
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Dr. Benz is a hero that kept Churchill from devolving into Einstein.
Guess which neighborhood all the drugs and violence came from?[/quote]

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