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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous](quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no lily-white schools in MCPS. Not even in Bethesda.[/quote]

oh please!.  See Somerset, Bradley Hills, Westbrook, Wood Acres, Ashburton, Carderock Potomac (except for Asians, but they don't count as minorities, right?) Etc etc etc.  Pyle and Whitman.   Tip of the iceberg.  How about we break up those schools up  and bus them out too.  Seems only fair.  If it's good enough for RHPS then it's good enough for them too.  If we are going to make diversity an issue, then make it an issue for all and fix it istead of paying lip service to it by picking on a couple communities and forcing hardship on them the way they have ike CCES RHPS and NCC.[/quote]

Somerset: 63% white
Bradley Hills: 67% white
Westbrook: 76% white
Wood Acres: 70% white
Ashburton: 48% white
Carderock Springs: 68% white
Potomac: 54% white
Pyle: 73% white
Whitman: 70% white

Only in Montgomery County would schools where more than 1 in 4 students is not white be described as "lily-white". Or maybe the lilies you've seen are different from the lilies I've seen.[/quote]

I know, I know!. Instead if putting down the number of whites.  Why not give us the numbers of African American and Hispanic students? Because those are the numbers that count towards diversity.   Not the overacheving Asians.  Even better, what we are REALLY talking about is FARMs rates for schools.  Socioeconomic diversity.  Since you have your finger on the statistics button, let's pull up the FARMS rates for those same schools that you are touting as so diverse and compare them to RHPS and RCF.   Seems to me you are afraid the great bussing experiment will be coming to your school soon so you are touting your upper income schools as diverse.  Everyone knows the truth.  Time for every elementary school to have some skin in the game.  Either have more schools bus like RHPS or let the NCC RHPS and CCES people finally have a neighborhood school instead of little kids biased miles away to the next town where their frienships get ripped apart and parents struggle logistically handle how to best deal the conflicts in schedule.  Thise are the things that should discussed along with the new middle school. [/quote]

Parent at one of the schools listed above here -- you'd be surprised the number of HIspanic students (including mine).  There are a lot of Spanish-speaking kids at our school.  But you'd say they don't count because they aren't FARMS kids (which most aren't, I'm sure, given the low FARMS rate).   I'm very sympathetic to you not wanting your kids to be bused.  To me, it's just hard on a little kid.  Especially kids who take longer to get comfortable and make friends.  I think that since there's no evidence that busing is helping anyone (except the school system APPEAR to be more egalitarian), we should stop making these kids go through this nonsense.
It's all just BS so MCPS can say they're closing the achievement gap.  Like when the numbers at an underperforming school look better because there's a magnet program in there.  Or they add an enrichment program for "gifted" kids, and then the only kids who are in it are the few kids in the school whose parents are professionals anyway.  It's just smoke and mirrors.  It would take a LOT of resources that MCPS doesn't have to actually close the achievement gap.  [/quote]

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