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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nice school. Very diverse. Pretty competitive.  Mostly hard working kids. [/quote]

I thought it had just white and Asian students and looked nothing like the county which is mostly Hispanic.[/quote]

You write this as if the Hispanic population in MCPS is 80%. It’s not. We have pretty sizable chunks of black, white and asian populations in our schools, so it is not unusual for some of our schools to have more of those groups represented than the Hispanic students.

Saying that a school that is mostly white and Asian “looks nothing like the county” is false and harmful because Montgomery County has had and still has plenty of residents who are white or Asian and they belong here as much as anyone else. Shame on you.[/quote]

What's harmful is to pretend a school is diverse when it really isn't.[/quote]

The breakdown of Wilton’s student population has been posted. Asians are not white. They count as people of color.

Slices of MoCo’s population are all present. The fact that it is not majority black and Hispanic does not mean the school is not diverse. If the school was 80% white or Asian, then you could argue it’s not diverse. But that’s not the case.[/quote]
Yes, Asians are POC, but the low % of FARMs, and black and brown kids in a county where they have a larger % means Wootton is not diverse in Moco.  If you compare Wootton to some all white HS in podunk WV, then yes, Wootton is diverse. But, Wootton is being compared to other HS in MoCo, so no, it's not diverse.

And I don't consider Kennedy HS diverse, either.[/quote]

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