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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janney is a lot more like Montgomery County schools than other city schools -- full of strivers -- but with a pitiful level of diversity.  I think that's the hardest thing to take about Janney and why I sent my children to private even though I was IB there.  The school is HUGE by DC standards and the vast majority of the kids are white.  [/quote]

Don't kid yourself about the diversity in the specific MoCo schools that most closely resemble Janney.  It's every bit as "pitiful" 1-3 miles to the northwest in Maryland.

Somerset, wood acres, chevy chase es, Westbrook, north chevy chase, seven locks, carderock springs, Bradley hills, bannockburn and burning tree are exclusively upper middle class and white, white, white, with a smattering of Indian doctors, a few East Asian diplomats, and a few Hispanic professionals from your Argentinas and the like. World Bank Spaniards, etc.    As white and middle/UMC as au park is, it stands firmly together with all of western MoCo in having no immigrant kids from Honduras and no black kids born to black single teen moms living in poverty. [/quote]

But in the near future Janney will be more diverse because of the OOB/lower SES set aside of seats.  That may necessarily mean that Janney's IB borders are trimmed a bit to make room for the 10% or 15% set aside, whatever it turns out to be.[/quote]

I'd bet anything that the Janney boundaries are never changed. There is way too much political clout at the school.  The initial proposal included proposed changes  that would have changed the school for about 10 families and the school rallied behind those families and organized such a well-run fight. I bet that the "set asides" simply don't happen or are the numbers are fudged.
--Janney parent who wishes that we had more economic diversity.[/quote]

Moving so few families (i.e., such a small area) would have no significant impact on enrollment numbers, so perhaps they decided the trouble wasn't worth the benefit.[/quote]

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