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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live near Blair, and I've learned something in the years that my kids have been in MCPS schools (they are now both middle schoolers).

All of this talk about "better" schools and the lauding of the Poolesville environment is just veiled racism.  Believe me, I talked that way myself without realizing where it came from.  Nowt hat I see my kids thriving in schools with lots and lots of different people, I realize what I was thinkng and feeling behind all that blah blah blah about school environments.

If you make a decision to move somewhere because of the "environment" being better, ask yourself if it's really what you mean.

I'm glad for my kids, that they have friends of many different races and backgrounds.  [/quote]

You really need to get out more often. Do you even understand the schools that apply to Poolesville magnet are Clarksburg, Damascus, Gaithersburg, Magruder, Northwest, Poolesville, Quince Orchard, Seneca Valley, or Watkins Mill.

We don't have to force diversity up here - our kids are in a diverse school environment since they were in pre-K.[/quote]

Completely irrelevant point...

Just because diverse schools apply to the magnet does not make the magnet diverse.  This is solely dependant on which kids actually get accepted.

The reason for the difference in the Poolesville and Blair is that the base population of Blair is diverse while the base population of Poolesville is not.  Entering magnet kids are not flooding Poolesville with minorities....   :roll:[/quote]

Blair is not diverse. It has to create a magnet school so whites and asian will even consider going there.

Poolesville is not diverse - they have created a magnet program for diverse kids.

Poolesville magnet is more diverse than Blaire's magnet because Blaire's magnet is overpopulated with white and asians. The kids going to Poolesville don't need diversity because their lives are diverse. Whites in upper east MoCo don't need diversity because our neighborhoods and schools are diverse.
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Blair is as diverse as realistically possible...  Its essentially 25% AS, 25% WH, 25% BL, 25% HS, and any suggesting that the 25% of the WH is in the magnet is ridiculous.

Poolesville on the other hand is 60% WH, 23% AS, 5% BL, 7% HS, if the magnet is making the school diverse and BL and HS is only 10% what is the base population consist of?

FYI, Norhtwood which is extremely close to Blair in Silver Spring with no magnet program is 20% WH.[/quote]

Thanks for posting this!  Very true.

We live in the neighborhood and my kid goes to the Eastern MS magnet.  That program is really diverse -- I don't know stats but his friends in the program are mostly AA and latino, one kid whose family is from India and one who's Ethiopian.  These kids all got in fair and swaure and are doing really difficult work.

It's one of the things I've come to appreciate a lot about Silver Spring.  These kids value and appreciate each other -- they aren't color blind but they are connecting on levels that transcend their different backgrounds and at the same time they appreciate each others' differences.  It is quite amazing and I didn't really expect for this to be such a positive part of the program and the schools over here, but it is.  My son also socializes a lot with kids from school who aren't in the magnet.  It's really great.

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