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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1..... not 30/30/30 and also within the 1/1/1/1/1/1... not all of one group is poor and all of another is not poor. As somebody pointed out the 30/30/30 can be broken down into a more meaningful categories but people are stuck with white/black/hispanic.[/quote]

I must have missed something further back in this thread, but you have completely lost me with this 1/1/1/1 thing. There are lots of affluent blacks in Silver Spring. Many of us choose to live there, rather than Bethesda precisely because of the diversity. And we also have many multiracial families. I think that when speaking of schools, people talk aggregate white/black/hispanic/asian because those are the demographics you can see on a school's website. It doesn't list, Ethiopia, Cote d'Ivoire, haiti, costa rica, vietnam, El Salvador, India. It doesn't say 2 kids with African immigrant lawyer parents, one kid with Japanese MBA mother. That doesn't mean those people aren't there.[/quote]

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