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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I think if you find a school that has a lot of diversity, it's probably as good or better than finding a school that has a high proportion of Arab kids.  A truly diverse school -- that is a true mixture of kids from different countries and cultures will be nonchalant about your kids' culture b/c they have seen it all.  I think that is a really good thing.

I have one at Springfield Estates.  There are kids who wear headscarves (not a lot of them), but it is totally a non issue.  They have books in Urdu and other languages for all the kids who come there not speaking a lick of English.  They have international night.  B/c they are diverse in having kids from spanish speaking countries, asian countries, european countries, etc., they just roll with the flow of whatever your culture is. And, they do a great job with their test scores (note that the non AAP part of the school does well too -- not just the AAP part).

There is not a sense of "us vs. them" -- it's truly "diverse."  Maybe you could check that out.[/quote]

Unfortunately, Springfield won't put OP very close to Tysons/McLean.  [/quote]

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