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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

We know that.

The bar chart that is more insightful is the one that shows MCPS penetration trends; namely showing that [b]whites living in all catchment areas in MoCo are increasingly not attending MCPS. [/b]

From 2000 to 2011:
In top HS areas: went from 68% of whites attending MCPS to 57% whilst being 76% of the catchment area. 
In aggregate: went from 50% of whites attending MCPS to 35% whilst falling only from 60% of pop to 55% of pop. 
In the NE and DCC consortiums: MCPS attendees dropped at 3x the rate as the drop of whites in that catchment area. 
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No, it doesn't show that.

The sentence you're interested in is "Between 2000 and 2011, the percentage of teenagers living in Montgomery County who were white fell from 60% to 54%, while the proportion of white students in MCPS high schools fell from about 50% to 33%." Or, better stated: in 2000, 60% of Montgomery County teenagers were white and 50% of MCPS high school students were white, compared, to 2011, when 54% of Montgomery County teenagers were white and 33% of MCPS high school students were white.

We don't know what the author was counting when he counted "Montgomery County teenagers", given that "teenager" and "high school student" are not synonyms.

We also don't know what happened between 2010-2011 and 2016-2017.

And, if white students are now attending private schools in large numbers, what private schools are they attending? Have the private schools attended by white students in the area increased the number of seats?

And then there's the further question of, so what?[/quote]

All of this, PLUS: PP would like us to believe that white people opting out of MCPS is purely about educational quality. However, we know that white people are likely to flee neighborhoods and schools in which they become the minority, IRRESPECTIVE of school quality. Now, the reasons they give are different. If the school is becoming Blacker or more Latino, whites will say that the quality of education is sinking to the lowest denominator. If the school is becoming more Asian, whites will say that they just don't want their kids in "a pressure cooker atmosphere."

Either way, white people opt out of schools that are majority kids of color, and that decision is based on fear of being a minority rather than on actual concerns about the quality of education being provided. [/quote]

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