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[quote=Anonymous][quote]My problem with Latin right now is that my Chinese immigrant spouse had a bad reaction to seeing the new location/neighborhood. No doubt Randolph School will look far more inviting once renovated. We also weren't sold on the demographics of the high school - we didn't see any Asian kids among the upperclassmen/women when we visited. Then we visited Blair's math magnet in Silver Spring, where nearly half the kids are of Asian descent. You see the problem I'm having here. [/quote]

I do, and I think it's insurmountable based on the Chinese immigrants I've known in the DC area.  Your husband is, again IME, not going to get past his latent and probably unacknowledged racism.  Also, his visceral reaction to patinated, dingy things.  [Glassy Tysons Galleria, good.  Same exact boutique along M St. with hoody'd loiterers waiting for bus, not as good].

Nothing you say will convince your husband to change his mind, but as your life partner, there's always that chance that he'll acquiesce to your pick of Latin if that's your clear winner.  I think it's admirable that your family couches The Problem as being one of "not enough Asian faces" VS. "too many black faces around the new Latin address and in its halls."

Deal has the same exact percentage of "Asian faces" as Latin does.  Yet the surrounding neighborhood -- my neighborhood, fwiw -- is a little less scary I know. [/quote]

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