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Ten percent of the student population.

Being made up of mainly two races doesn't make a school diverse.  Similar how schools that are minority majority are not diverse as well.

There have been several threads about what diversity is already.  But to me, a diverse school is where there is a decent representation of every student group.  Such as Julius West:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/03211.pdf

Using the middle school to not pick up the IB students who might live out of the school zone in Richard Montgomery.  But I think a makeup of that is diverse.

Once you go over 30% in any student group, it starts to look like they are a good portion of the school.  I think Wootton was about 30% Asians at the time when it picked up the name Wonton.[/quote]

"Asian" is not a race. It's the adjective referring to the continent Asia, which is a big and diverse (sorry) continent. Also, Wootton actually is majority minority. "Asian" is a minority.

The "Wootton is not diverse" argument basically goes like this -- "There are a lot of white people, and there are a lot of Asian people who are basically white people, and there aren't any poor people, so Wootton is not diverse." That's silly.

For what it's worth, I don't live in wealthy/white Potomac/Bethesda, and I wouldn't want to live in Potomac even if I could afford it, which I can't. So I don't have a dog in this fight.[/quote]

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