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I am mixed race and international and grew up in a variety of countries and school systems.

I found it is always best to chose quality of education over any other criteria. Usually good schools will have socially-aware, politically-correct families who tend to be respectful of racial and cultural differences, and if not that, to at least pay lip service to those concepts.

Therefore I chose to live in Bethesda where there is a preponderance of wealthy white families, but some that are culturally Asians, Europeans, Central or South Americans and a scattering of others. Not too many Africans or African-Americans, which last is a consequence of Montgomery County's old real estate segregation, sadly. The ones I have met all moved to Bethesda for the schools. And speaking of...

I also have friends who live elsewhere in MoCo. They have told me interesting stories about the assumptions based on skin color, made in minority-majority districts. Assumptions made by teachers about Black students, and pressures Black students place among themselves. Don't know if it's the same for Latino groups. In certain schools, racism between minorities is expected and is so rampant, it's not dealt with as forcefully as the blackface incident at Walt Whitman last year, for example. I commented at length about that on a previous thread on race perceptions in MCPS.

Pick a school where your kid will have the best education money can buy (money for real estate, or money for private school tuition).  The rest you and your child will learn to navigate.

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I’m the PP whose 4th child has a bad experience. That is what we did. Bought into an expensive neighborhood because of the it was zoned for the best (99% white) school. It may have been a one off for us but it did not work out school wise and we pulled my 4th out. 
It was a wise real estate investment but a poor school choice for us. [/quote]

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