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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The alleged racist incident involving a girls sporting event was proven to be a lie. The Einstein student eventually recanted. Unfortunately, the damage was done thanks to the media coverage. The schools opted to not clear up the situation publicly because they thought revisiting the situation would make it worse.

Now Dcumlandia continues to perpetuate the false stereotype of  Sherwood and Olney being racist. Sigh. [/quote]

There were multiple incidents, not just one.[/quote]

There were allegedly 2. Both were linked to girls sports.  And the allegedly “worse” one was eventually recanted. The other was never actually substantiated.

PS - google the swastika and other racist incidents that were grounded in fact that happened at mcps high schools that Dcumlandia holds up as better than Sherwood.

PPS - pretty sure both the prom king and queen at Sherwood this year were black. Tell which legit country club kids were voted in at your inner burb mcps high school. [/quote]

Voting a Black prom king and queen doesn't mean a community still isn't racist. What a reach that echoes the old "my sister in law's third cousin removed is Black" type of concept. After all, this generation for the most part is more open to DEI, whilst it's the dinosaur older folks who oppose affordable housing mixed in with libraries, or didn't want 4 schools including Sherwood in the Northeast Consortium because it would set the stage for a WJ/Einstein/B-CC/Whitman consortium later on, or a Blair/Kennedy/Northwood/Wheaton consortium.[/quote]

Labeling is never appropriate. Period.

Labeling the entire Sherwood area as racist is absurd.

Harkening back decades ago to make your case based on a school boundary/structure debate is hilarious. I mean, the fancy pants folks down county go bananas whenever mcps boundary discussions are discussed today in 2022!

If you lived here, you would realize that Olney is a bit far flung and has a traffic issue on Georgia Avenue. In short: it would easily be an hour long commute to some of the proposed consortium schools during bus times. In fact, I know dozens of families who opted to forgo magnets and gifted programs precisely because they didn’t want their kid on a bus or in a car pool for ridiculous commutes.

Re: housing - Olney has affordable housing through the county’s mpdu program (just like the rest of the county). What we don’t have are an over-abundance of rentals because Olney used to be considered too remote for commuters. ICYMI: the bill of apartments and rentals that serve lower income people are clustered in the lower east portion of the county. You can thank your county council for protecting the west side (Potomac, Bethesda, CC, etc.) from diversity several decades ago (and for whatever reason…ahem, racism…they continue to do so even today despite the data and research that proves that low income bipoc kids have better test scores and outcomes in west county schools than east county school; google the blind moco study on homeless families as a good starting point).

Guess what? Everyone is welcome in Olney, and you don’t need a million bucks to buy a home here! Most of us purposely moved here to get away from the Joneses and tiger moms stretching or flexing to buy in a W school or going the private school route in SS (or betting on magnets and moving or going private if that didn’t pan out).

What’s the saying? If a tree falls in the forest but nobody is around to hear it, does it make a noise?

Well, if you plant a BLM sign in your front yard in your segregated down county or west county neighborhood but no/or few bipoc families actually live there and read it, why are you labeling Olney as racist? After all, we know the real reason you people don’t live here is because of the commute…it’s definitely not because of affordability. [/quote]

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