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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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The problem in MOCO is that the area is economically segregated. At Blair the poor kids are AA and hispanic, the MC/UMC kids are white, the magnet kids are asian American and white. There are very few AA students in the magnet programs. The kids stay within their SES and academic cohort groups. You might as well be at Churchill or Whitman. The same is true at non-magnet schools like QO. The poor kids are AA and almost all the wealthy kids are white or Asian Americans.

UMC AA parents find themselves being in a very small minority in all MCPS schools and many decide to go private as well. PG attracts many more UMC and MC AA families but the schools outside of the TAG programs are a problem so many people do private school.

Not true. The magnet programs are &lt;500 students out of 3,200+. There are ~1200 White or Asian students.

why &quot;not true&quot;?

the PP never stated that there were few white students outside of the magnet programs... [/quote]

+1 There also are two magnet programs SMAC and Blair CAP. SMAC is mostly Asian American students and some white students, CAP is mostly white students and some asian students. There are white students that are not in either magnet but they are clustering in the honors classes. Its a bad optic.

It is a real issue for educated, UMC AA families. From an education and economic standpoint they are more aligned to the white families but the white families fundamentally do not understand the experience of being AA. For the kids, they are caught between being friends with a cohort that matches their educational goals and economic experience but doesn't look like them or understand their experience racially or a cohort that doesn't match their educational goals and looks like them and understands their experience racially but not economically. [/quote]

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