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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, so why isn't this great school far more diverse? Why is it 3% white in a city where whites are more than 40% of the population these days? Just poor PR? Serious question.

Glad your teens are happy there thus far but I'm skeptical. You can shout "strong public options!" all you want. But the inconvenient truth is that few UMC families are convinced.  [/quote]

Original poster here.  I had not wanted to get into this but feel I need to address this.  As a UMC white mom myself, i was struck that my white friends had almost no info/personal insights on the school while all my AA friends highly recommended it, and rightly so.  The only thing I can think, sadly, is the a) frankly bigoted and sadly engrained assumption/fear of being singled out as the “only white kid” has kept white people away and the racist view that majority black schools in NE aren’t safe/good and b) so many kids want to only go to schools with their friends and there is a clustering effect around the same public and charter schools.  I’m sorry to be that blunt but otherwise I struggle to understand a rationale that makes sense.  Certainly it’s a STEM school and that doesn’t attract all kids.  But I struggle to see that as the key reason for the demographic composition.

Overall I just think the school (and the kids that attend) deserve recognition and I had wanted to just flag it for parents who struggled as I did to get sufficient information on it in this forum.[/quote]

Ironically, the only person I know who went there is the dad of a friend of mine who committed residency fraud to go. He was in Bethesda. They are white.

That being said I know a couple teachers there, and I play soccer with other teachers, and they speak really highly of the teachers and administration.[/quote]

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