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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am ok with us moving to PG :)  But I would love to know where I should be looking
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It sounds crass to put it this way, but [b]the safest course educationally speaking is to follow the gentrification.  [/b]

The Post had a front page article last summer about the influx of white families to PG (according to recent Census data), and the authors pinpointed the Hyattsville area.  The white households are primarily upper-middle class and there are also highly educated AA and Asian families moving to places like Arts District Hyattsville.  This is having a very positive effect on Hyattsville Elementary.

University Park, just north of Hyattsville, has long had a stable and affluent population, which results in University Park Elementary being a stellar performer, even by MOCO standards.

And if for whatever reason you end up not happy in the local PS, there are excellent private options in St. Jerome Academy and Friends Community School, and DeMatha and Seton high schools are also close by.  St. Jerome in particular is a bargain among private schools and has a substantial non-Catholic enrollment.[/quote]

No.  You do not need to "follow the gentrification."  There are plenty of majority AA areas in PG that are very affluent and nice.  I'm not even black and I found this post a little bit offensive, like you need to follow the white people to find a livable place.  No wonder PG has such a stigma, if this is the way people think.[/quote]

I think that is why PG has the stigma.  You would be amazed at the things people said to me when I told them I bought a house in PG.  Frankly, I've been shocked at how racist people are.  And I'm talking about progressive types!  I'm progressive/liberal, and so most of my friends are, and the things they have said are, frankly, disgusting.  It's actually been the worst part of moving to PG.  I love my neighborhood.  I love my neighbors.  But the PG-shaming and not-so-subtle racism that I've experienced from what I thought were open-minded, progressive, non-racist friends has made me sick in the stomach at times.  Beyond that, I've had white professionals say out and out racist things when I told them I moved to PG.  Needless to say, I won't be spending my money on their services again.  But it bothers me that people think it's okay to say the things they've said!  And I would add, that the professionals who have said horrible things, I suspect, don't even know much about PG.  
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ITA!  People either cringe or give me a blank stare when I say I live in PG.  It makes me feel very awkward.[/quote]

Well, and it feeds the problem.

Frankly, if there was less of a stigma, more people would move to PG.  And no, I'm not one who thinks that more white people are the answer, but I do think that if there were more diversity (meaning not one group making up 90 percent of the population) the issue a PP noted about black on white racism would be less of a fear and less of a problem.   I think all people benefit from true diversity -- which is a situation where no one group makes up the overwhelming majority and, thus, no one group then gets singled out as the minority.

That said, I think more diversity in other counties would be a good thing, too.  And by that I mean more diversity in AA County.  When the demographics are 90-some percent of one group to less than 10 percent of another, it sets the stage for bigotry and racism.  When there is more of a balance, I think kids, teenagers grow up more tolerant and more able to interact in a variety of groups.

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