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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I grew up in one of these all white schools and remember the elementary school year when school was integrated. [/quote]

PP at 11:48, you were in elementary school in the early 1960s?[/quote]

Where do you get early 1960's from?  The early sixties was just the very beginning of these debates.  The specific changes I mention happened in the BCC cluster in the mid seventies, when I was in elementary school. The debates about forced busing, school closings and special programs continued into the early 80s, as I remember.  The Eisenberg case happened in 1999.  Segregation/integration issues are part of our very recent history (sadly).

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MCPS was desegrated de jure at the end of 1961. De facto segregation continued, of course. In fact it still continues. [/quote]

Yes, de jure segregation ended first, but it changed very little in MoCo, because the reality was that neighborhood/housing patterns in MoCo were still very segregated due to a long history of racially and religiously restrictive property covenants and the practice of mortgage red-lining.  In the early 60s, MoCo could still get away with saying "we are no longer segregated" but maintaining school district boundaries based on housing patterns that resulted in de facto segregation.  It took until the mid-70s, when BoE members and citizens could see the handwriting on the wall that schools might be forcibly desegregated by court-ordered plans, for the community to come up with these voluntary desegregation by school choice plans.

I am not disagreeing with you, just elaborating.  Sometimes I think that people who live MoCo forget or don't really know the (sad) history of our county (although it's not much different from other counties in that regard). [/quote]

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