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I'm all for diversity but if it becomes a more important mission statement than academic quality, our kids will not succeed in the 21st Century.[/quote]

In any case, the schools in MoCo and Fairfax are a lot more diverse than DCPS schools, and have been for a while. When people talk about "diverse" in DC they really just mean "lots of poor non-immigrant blacks".[/quote]

I keep reading this and it is incorrect. You need to get out of the exurbs and stop voicing out of date views of the city. My neighborhood is very international. [/quote]

Fairfax County schools 2012-13 (from FCPS website)

White: 42%
Black: 10%
Hispanic: 23%
Asian: 19%
Two or more races: 5%

DC Schools 2012-13 (from DCPS website)

White: 11%
Black: 69%
Hispanic: 16%
"Other": 4%

On a racial basis, Fairfax is easily more diverse than DCPS. Frankly DCPS is even less diverse than the stats indicate, since a high percentage of the white and hispanic populations are concentrated in a small percentage of the schools.

Also see percentage of foreign-born population in area jurisdictions from the 2010 census:

DC: 13%
Montgomery: 31%
Prince George's: 20%
Arlington: 23%
Alexandria: 25%
Fairfax: 29%
Loudoun: 22%
Prince William: 21%

More immigrants-->more diverse schools, even beyond what you can already see from the racial stats.[/quote]

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