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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d have a lot more respect for RH parents if they just admitted they don’t want their kids to go to school with black kids.[/quote]

River Hill is 10% AA, 6.5% Latino and less than 50% white. The people angry at the redistricting and quoted in the Baltimore Sun are clearly POC....

https://www.hcpss.org/f/schools/profiles/prof_hs_riverhill.pdf

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The school is 76% White/Asian with less than 5% FARMs.  How is that socioeconomically diverse?[/quote]

Mildly curious, why is socioeconomically diverse a goal? Enough to drastically change people's lives and housing values? [/quote]

The idea is that the system is trying to address achievement gaps experienced by lower income studenets, and particularly lower income AA and Hispanic students, who attend schools at which there are higher concentrations of poverty. Certain schools have more than half of their students receiving FARMs in a county where only 20% or so received FARMS. The argument is that the already disadvantaged students are further disadvantaged by attending schools with higher concentrations of povery.[/quote]

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