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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a fact that these schools are “wealthy” and “white,” not some sort of bigoted insult as another poster said. It is a fact that mcps public school kids are majority minority and a third are low-income. One of the purposes of this discussion is to voice our opinion about whether it is right and appropriate in our county to have some students so racially and socioeconmically isolated from one another. This is a democracy so we are all able to weigh in.[/quote]

These school's have been segregated far too long. Hopefully, the diversity bussing will address this.[/quote]

Calling schools that are 50% and 46% non-white "segregated" is a bit much.  I agree there are serious issues of equity in MCPS.  But these schools are not "segregated," or at least, they are not racially segregated.  You may have a better argument that they are economically segregated.  But that's not what "segregated" has usually meant with respect to schools.[/quote]

Well, Whitman couldn’t have any fewer black students if it were actually legally segregated. So that sounds segregated.[/quote]

Maybe more upper-income blacks need to buy there rather than in Shepard Park, Silver Spring, Upper Marboro, and Fort Washington. But I guess you’d rather insinuate in 2018 that there’s some conspiracy to exclude blacks. [/quote]

Perhaps it's the abundance of confederate flags and MAGA hats in that part of the county that's a turn off.[/quote]

What the hell are you talking about?!

Whitman is in Bethesda, which is a definitively blue part of the county. The only part of the county that went for Trump (and it was barely so) was the more rural part northwest of Gaithersburg (basically the Ag Reserve). [/quote]

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