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I don’t know what your agenda is, I’m just going off the facts. Poolesville’s median household income is $180,524, and Bethesda’s is $164,142. Only 1.5% of people in Poolesville live in poverty, while 3% in Bethesda do. Those are the official numbers from the census. I don’t know why you think that people in Poolesville fighting to get their school replaced means they’re not wealthy and educated. Lots of schools in rich areas in large counties are old.

John Poole Middle School doesn’t rate any lower than Westland and hardly any lower than North Bethesda Middle School, and it has roughly the same amount of Hispanic/Black students as both of those middle schools. Kids in Poolesville will see far more Black and Hispanic kids in their life than kids who graduate from Churchill and Whitman will. It’s not some hill billy place with nothing but white people that people here pretend it is. The schools their magnet kids come from are other schools in upcounty that have far more Black/Hispanic kids and more low-income kids. They’re not taking kids from the richest and educated parts of the county to inflate their schools. [b]They’re working with their own region of the county.
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I doubt that most people in Poolesville consider Derwood or Gaithersburg as "my region of the county," and vice versa. In fact, in my experience, plenty of people from rural western Montgomery County don't even consider Germantown or Clarksburg as their own region of the county.

Poolesville Fair Access is about more than just the Poolesville HS building.

I also don't understand the reasons for the repeated comparisons between Poolesville and Bethesda, but if people want to do that, then they should do that.[/quote]

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