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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My rising 4th grader goes to a diverse ES in MoCo and there is definitely segregation within the class.  At this point, I am not sure though that my kid has really clued in: all of the minority kids are in the lower reading and math groups and all of the white kids are in the higher ones. All of the minority kids buy lunch daily and the white kids do not. The white kids have playdates and sleepovers with one another, minority kids are usually not asked to be included. The list goes on. That is not to say there aren't friendships between the kids but that they are not very deep. [/quote]

Our elementary school is about a quarter white and about a fifth FARMS, and I don't think that there is segregation like that -- but then the single-largest demographic group at the school is Asian, which (as somebody commented in the article) is not what people usually mean when they say "minority" in Montgomery County. But there are also white kids in the lower reading and math groups. The school boundaries include MPDUs, which I think are probably Montgomery County's best hope for socioeconomic diversity.[/quote]

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