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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can argue that a more culturally diverse school would solve the problem.  It won't.  The kids, especially at the high school level, will self-segregate. And a lot of what I've observed across the county is not a race issue, it's a class issue.  At any rate, as long as we continue to fear being around people other than ourselves, we move nowhere with regard to getting along in this country.  [/quote]

Actually, studies show that mixing poor kids in with wealthier ones raises poor kids' performance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/magazine/who-knew-greenwich-conn-was-a-model-of-equality.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

From a recent study of MCPS: "On average, the poorer children in wealthier schools cut their achievement gap in half compared with their peers in poorer schools."

That's good for the handful of poor kids at schools in Bethesda or Potomac, but what about the poor (and middle-class) kids who make up the bulk of students in East County schools? [/quote]

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