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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]9:45 here. People (kids and adults) self-segregate everywhere, in all situations. My point was that SS as a whole was a lot more diverse on a micro level...sure some neighborhoods are more white, some more hispanic, some more black (AA and immigrant), but at the ES level the schools were very diverse. [/quote]

I agree with your post. My kids point it out to me all the time. When we are situation X everybody is white, situation Y everybody is Hispanic, situation Z everybody is black. They ask why. It's hard to explain since I don't really understand it. I usually say I don't know what other people do or why, it is none of my business, I like to have lots of different friends.

I find that Gaithersburg and Germantown are not segregated like the rest of the county.

So if somebody said that MD public schools are segregated I would agree. [b]If they wanted to find a community that is less segregated I would NOT say Silver Spring just like I would NOT say Bethesda or Potomac or Poolesville or a bunch of other places in MD[/b] .

But, I don't believe schools will fix this issue. I would always say if your life is diverse your children's lives will be diverse so work on making lots of friends with different backgrounds and kids will too. [/quote]

What do you consider diverse? I am sure there are a couple of Silver spring elementary schools that 80% black or 80% hispanic. But there are many that are not that heavily tilted in one direction. Plus, I know there are many, many people on DCUM who would think that a school that is "only" 80% white qualifies as diverse. So, a conversation on what places are and are not diverse is meaningless if you don't define diversity. 
BTW, we are an African American/immigrant family, living in a silver spring neighborhood that you would probably consider white and segregated.
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