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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your family was at a crossroads and housing costs were not an issue, would you choose Churchill, Poolesville, or Whitman? [/quote]

I'd get far away from the money in Churchill and Whitman.  I'm not a huge fan of Poolesville, either, but that's where I would go.

AA PP is right.   They are racist as **** in the W schools.  I guess it's "good" that it's so blatant?  At least you know what you are dealing with.

But there is so much money, and so little supervision, many kids are doing drugs -- lots of them and hard core.[/quote]

Ok. That’s not what I need in my life now or later. Are the Potomac area private high schools the same?[/quote]

Incorrect stereotype. People love to bash Whitman on DCUM. Mostly because they are jealous. The racist incidents last year were done by a biracial kid to get attention. My DC has a large group of friends at Whitman, none of whom are racist or do drugs. I’m sure there are some, but it is by no means widespread. [/quote]

I agree.   My AA son just graduated from Churchill and says he didn't experience any racism during his years there.     (He did have a blatantly racist teacher -- now retired -- in 3rd grade in a Churchill feeder elementary school.)       And he estimates that 20% of the students were drug users, but that they are easy to avoid.    [/quote]

Is OP black?  Or of color?

I responded about the pervasive racism at the Ws.  It's not just about kids of color.    It also influences (often heavily) white kids who pick up these ways of thinking.   Many of the kids have superiority complexes because they are in the richest of the rich schools, think they are better than everyone else, and that mentality easily translates into racist and sexist beliefs and conversations.  Many white male students at these schools think (and have been told by parents) they are better than everyone else.   So if you are raising a white kid and you don't want them hanging around this kind of stuff, the Ws may not for you.

Doesn't mean all white and Asian kids are racist.  Many aren't.   But it's much uglier down there than other parts of the County.    If you look at where bias incidents occur in the county, they are everywhere,  but there's a large concentration in Bethesda. [/quote]

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