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DP.  Of course it is.  OP is presumably worried about being surrounded by kids who expect to jet to Europe twice a year, be given a Benz at 17, etc.

Folks living in an $800k house in Potomac aren’t doing that or anything close.  They likely live comfortable lives with the occasional modest luxury, but nothing extravagant.  It could easily be a two Fed family or other people with good, but not incredibly high earning jobs.[/quote]

If I had a nickel for every time I've read a post like this on DCUM, I'd have a lot of nickels but still wouldn't be able to afford a $800,000 house in Potomac.[/quote]

and then you hear about them complaining about those horrible kids in Scotland.

It's so funny to have them come on here and just out themselves, like nobody needs to do it for them. [/quote]

And the irony is, YOU are the one who came here and brought up those kids... well well well. [/quote]

No, I'm a DP, and I'm the one who mentioned Scotland. I mentioned Scotland because it's part of Montgomery County history, and because it's relevant to Churchill. I'm going to repost this link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2007/01/14/the-scotland-of-the-doves-span-classbankheadthis-neighborhoods-roots-too-deep-to-be-put-downspan/17b2f8b0-79e6-45c0-ac0c-b137446c0f5a/

[i]So when the fight happened at Winston Churchill High School recently and four Scotland students were charged with assault, and Principal Joan C. Benz sent out a letter saying, "Every incident revolving around this two-month ordeal has been Black-on-Black violence," residents in the neighborhood just off Seven Locks Road knew she was talking about their community.

And the need arose once again, as in the pre-integration days, to explain why the children of Scotland deserved to attend Churchill, to sit beside the children from much wealthier parts of Potomac.

"There is a stigma on Scotland. . . . They see Scotland as a place of danger, a place they can stay away from," says the Rev. James Phifer, pastor of Scotland AME Zion Church, which was built in the community 101 years ago. "And all of that is hogwash."

So what is it like to live in a place that people use careful language to describe?

Code words. Veiled language. Words that are less distasteful, less offensive, used to say one thing but imply another. "They came from Scotland."

What does it really mean when a fight is broadened to describe the neighborhood from which the teenagers came?

"The problem is, we understand the code because she is putting Scotland down," resident Craig Dove says, referring to Benz. "What I picked up is that it is a clear sign saying they don't want our kids at that school. They are already stereotyped for being from here."

"They label Scotland kids different," says Cynthia Polite, whose son was involved in the fight. Polite says the principal has told her that she wants her son transferred. "That lady at that school, that lady is trying to get Scotland kids out of there."[/i]
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[b]Dr. Joan Benz is a moron and should have been fired YEARS ago. I'm not sure what it took to make the administration get off their asses and finally fire her, I'm just glad they did.

She's 80 years o[/b]ld and still has segregation way of thinking. 
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[b]Dr. Benz is a hero that kept Churchill from devolving into Einstein.
Guess which neighborhood all the drugs and violence came from?[/b][/quote]

A hero??
The woman is a blatant racist, and she doesn't really dispute that fact, does she?

Good to know where you stand... white is right, huh?

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She's not even there anymore. 
The PP is obviously a troll. [b]And you can't blame Churchill for Benz - plenty of parents wanted her gone and MCPS let her stay. You need to be looking at MCPS and their policies regarding their administration and leadership.[/b][/quote]

Oh, good God... seriously?

Reading comprehension skills would helped immensely here. 
Please point to the exact place where I blamed either Churchill, the students or even the parents for Benz being a racist.  I'll wait..

Maybe, instead of reading these posts with such a defensive lens because your kids go to Churchill, try reading with an unemotional, more neutral one.

If you had done so, you would have seen exactly where I said "I don't know what it took for the administration to get off their asses and finally fire her, but I'm glad they did" (she is truly a bitter, miserable person).

This part should have been completely obvious to you, but when I wrote "the administration", the administration = MCPS BOE.

Just for my own reference, who else would I have been referring to when I mentioned the administration?

Did you think I meant the administration at Churchill?  Newsflash: Benz WAS the administration at Churchill... there was nobody higher.  Who was going to fire her at Churchill?

So, I'm still not getting how or where you could have ever taken my post as being derogatory towards Churchill, it's students, parents, staff or ANYONE at Churchill, other than Joan Benz?
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