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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the line in the article that just isn't true.  Yes, segregation is still an issue, but many black and Hispanic children attend very diverse schools in MoCo.  [b]Just because a school is majority non-white doesn't make it not diverse. [/b]

"Montgomery County, Md. is relatively diverse, with 34 percent of students white, 21 percent black and 26 percent Latino. But nearly 90 percent of both black and Hispanic children attend majority non-white schools. These children, in other words, live in a diverse county, but they don't attend diverse schools."[/quote]

What are the options for diversity here? White, Asian, black, Hispanic, and multiple.

Now, I don't think that there are many schools in Montgomery County with a high proportion of Asian students and few white students -- although perhaps I'm wrong. And the proportion of multiple in MCPS is very small. So that leaves what?

In other words, lots of black and Hispanic children are going to schools where the majority of students is black and Hispanic. The 8 Northeast and Downcounty consortium high schools account for almost half of Montgomery County's black and Hispanic high school students. Meanwhile, 6 high schools (guess which ones?) account for more than half of Montgomery County's white high school students. That's de facto segregation.

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19285/de-facto-segregation-threatens-montgomery-public-schools/

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