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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a white parent of a child in a Potomac elementary school, and I’ll admit the boundary study worries me.  My son goes to a W school but we live close to the Richard Montgomery border and [b]we paid a good $100K more than what our house would have cost in the RM district[/b].  I grew up in Montgomery County and went to another “W” school, so the prospect of having my child bussed to attend a racially and socioeconomically diverse school worries me, since it is not what I experienced.  I’ll admit my own implicit biases and racism makes me worry about my child having an educational experience that differs from what I had growing up.  That being said, so many of the comments on this forum and in other forums I have read that oppose the boundary study are truly frightening and make clear that the bulk of opposition, (I’d say a good 90 percent) boils down to straight up racism.   We have people on here straight up saying they support “separate but equal.”  In 30 years from now we will all look back at this and the opponents are going to be on the wrong side of history.  It is high time white people like me own up to our own implicit biases and racism and face the fact that allowing the current system to continue is just plain wrong.  [/quote]

There is no "RM district."  You bought into the MCPS school district.

You don't buy into any particular school.[/quote]

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