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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is impossible to have the discussion around city-based versus county-based school systems without talking about race and integration.

County-based school districts are more common in the southern US, where formal segregation meant you could have a county-wide school without worrying about sending your white child to school with Black kids.

In the North, where formal segregation was not in place, de facto segregation evolved to replace it. This took the form of municipality-level school districts, because neighborhoods and towns were still segregated.

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And, of course, Maryland had formal, [i]de jure[/i] segregation in public schools until after Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

The MCPS central offices are in the building that opened as the first modern high school for black children [b]in 1951[/b]. There was no public school past 8th grade for black children in Montgomery County until 1927, when Rockville Colored High opened.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/carver/

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I had no idea. Thanks for sharing this, OP. This means that within the lifetime of most of our parents, there was no public high school for Black kids in MoCo. No wonder we still have so far to go. The past isn't even really past. [/quote]

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