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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP:

Thank you very much for all your comments. Seems I have caused some offense; that was not my intention. I don’t have an issue with multiple perspectives. However, we’re moving in from a part of Florida where there’s absolutely correlation between certain high ranked schools and ultra conservative environments. Good to know the general profile in Montgomery County even for top ranked schools will be quite different. [/quote]

Welcome to the area, OP.

Don't worry about causing offense. Arguing is DCUM's stock in trade.

Just to give you a hint at what's to come: my kid at Westland MS (in the BCC high school cluster) had summer reading assignments that were always centered around either bullying in school, and/or being LGBTQ+. They welcomed a lesbian soccer player for an assembly. The Pride club was very active. Now she's at BCC and knows a lot of non-binary, gender-fluid kids. She sits next to a MAGA-curious boy in AP US History and she enjoys debating him. Before Trump 2.0, some families sued MCPS for its readings of LGBTQ+ books in elementary classrooms, and that lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court and MCPS lost. Now parents have the right to opt their kids out of classroom readings they don't like. We do have some conservative families in this county: long-time Americans who are often deeply religious, and many immigrants who come from patriarchal and socially conservative countries, who are shocked to discover that homosexuality or gender fluidity can be discussed in primary education. That would never happen where they come from. But even taken together, they represent a small minority of the residents of this solidly liberal region.

So. We're a fun bunch here.

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Oh, and there are just as many kids who are openly gay and non-binary than there are kids who are openly autistic, ADHD and generally neurospicy (their term, not mine). Everyone is very open about their differences here.

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