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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you are correct.  Those schools are very heavily chinese first generation immigrants, along with the other Wootton feeder schools (Travilah, etc).

Everyone is polite and friendly, but if you desire a sense of "community" where families hang out together, you won't get it as much at these schools.

If you go closer into Potomac, at a school such as Wayside, the demographics are a little more even there.  Still very heavily asian with a large jewish population as well.

For the true "community" experience, you will have to move into bethesda, or if that is out of your budget, somewhere such as Rachel Carson ES or Jones Lane ES in 20878.[/quote]

Come on, many of those other Bethesda or Potomac neighborhoods are heavily white and if you're Asian no you probably won't find that "community" there either. You can tell just by looking at the elementary sports teams at those schools which are parent-formed and they are almost exclusively white. We know a child who is Chinese-American and asked for years if he could be on one of the teams and was always told they were full even when new white kids came on the team all the time. [/quote]

Our family is asian american in a predominantly white school and my child is on all the school teams. When we initially joined the school, we too were excluded from many things, but we didn't use our race as an excuse.   There is definitely an subconscious barrier that makes it harder for non-whites to break into white neighborhood cliques... but I don't like it when asians use that as an excuse for not getting in with the cool crowd in a white neighborhood. As long as you have decent social skills and aren't a weirdo, people are generally very friendly and welcoming, regardless of what race you are.

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WTH? Can you be more tone deaf? So white people are now the "cool crowd"?
We've all seen that there is sometimes a token Asian kid or other non-white appearing child on those teams. You've probably noticed it too on the teams you play there there maybe one or maybe two but that is not proportional to the Asian-Americans at those schools.
The AAPI families at DC's school had to join a different after school sports program after getting turned down by the white parent coaches. There were not not enough kids for a whole team. The parents and kids aren't weirdos and have good social skills. Some parents are immigrants but there were a bunch of second generation parents too. All different ethnicities.

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