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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not going to tell anyone that Whitman has great diversity (unless you value international diversity), but it does have a lot of very high achieving AA students, and they tend to do very well in the college admissions process.  Just something to keep in mind if that's a priority. [/quote]

Not sure if you can make many generalizations given the tiny sample size (&lt; 4% of the school is AA).

Also, I listened to a WAMU event earlier this year in which some AA students emotionally described their negative experiences at Whitman.  For example:

&quot;Breanna McDonald, a senior at Walt Whitman High School and a leader in the countywide student-run Minority Scholars Program, puts her support for the boundary study in the context of her own experiences, as one of the few students of color in most of her classes at Whitman. She’s seen the school community fractured by a number of hateful incidents — a student calling another student the n-word, a Black History Month assembly mocked online, a racist Snapchat post, a teacher who she says made her feel “less than”– and she hopes that increased diversity at the school could improve the climate and make her feel less isolated.

McDonald didn’t sugarcoat her experiences in comments at the town hall.

[b]“If I had known what I know now, I would’ve transferred from Whitman,” she told the room. “There’s no amount of equity and wealth that that school can provide me,” to make up for the “trauma” that she experienced there.[/b]

https://wamu.org/story/19/04/02/how-students-in-montgomery-county-are-leading-the-push-for-school-redistricting/[/quote]

Really strong post. I couldn't sympathize more with her.[/quote]

PP here, me too.  I happened to hear it live on NPR during my commute; it was really something--you could hear the emotion in her voice.[/quote]

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