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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you have asked a lightning rod sort of question. I’m black and live in Kensington. Unpopular opinion - there isn’t any public school in MoCo that I like for Black children. Start digging into the test data and you will find that there are very few schools where Black children test similarly to their white peers. And this is taking SES into account. The educated, wealthy Black doctors, lawyers, and consultants are not all raising untalented children. So one then has to wonder why are the children performing poorly? There has been a lot of research about implicit bias and lowered expectations for Black children, as well as different outcomes for Black children in schools with a predominantly white faculty. If you check the demographics of some of these schools, you will see that the majority of the non white staff is support staff and not teaching or admin. So your children are in an environment where everyone who looks like them is in a service role.

I have no problem with my children attending a school that has economic diversity, but I don’t want them at a school where every other child who looks like them is low SES. No matter what teachers say, there are lowered expectations for those students and your child will be lumped in to those lowered expectations.

If you can afford it, you may want to consider a cheaper house and pay for private. There are great neighborhoods in Kensington that are zoned to Rock View and Oakland Terrace that will be much more affordable than the Parkwood side of town. I will also note that children in our neighborhood of all races who attend Oakland Terrace, Rock View,  Newport Mill MS and Einstein HS are lovely, bright, well adjusted children. [/quote]

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