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I grew up in a very mixed town, where doctors' kids attended the same (one) HS as the kids of Greek immigrants who owned the shoe repair shop.  There are a variety of housing options throughout the town, which has two middle schools and one HS.  Everyone, working class and professionals, support the schools together.

This county is too big.[/quote]

How would splitting the county make the schools more economically integrated?

The one major thing going for MCPS here is that the rich people and the poor people are all in the same school system. Not the same schools, but at least the same school systems. As a PP said, it's very common for the rich people to have their own private public school system, that the poor people don't get to go to.[/quote]

We are not really all in the same school system.  Make no mistake, MCPS is very much a system of haves and have-nots.  If this were not so, we would not see all these people on this forum dissing eastern MoCo schools and lauding W schools.

I am one of the PPs who noted that in a small town-based school system, economic diversity is very achievable and indeed, was my experience.  My dad was a lawyer and I went to high school with doctors' kids, first-generation immigrant kids, kids whose mom worked in the school cafeteria.  All in ONE high school.

If the county split, and if there were more mixed housing available throughout the resulting smaller counties, mixing poor and rich would be feasible.  [/quote]

I agree with the need for mixed housing. Not everyone wants or needs to live in a huge house. I'd be happy with a small apartment that fed into Churchill. Instead I am down county and in a small apartment to close the gap between FA and tuition at DD's private. Still cheaper than our second choice public after finding out we'd pay as much for an apartment in WJ's catchment as we were paying for a SFH in the DCC.[/quote]

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