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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New Hampshire estates is great and it will former you close to both Tokoma park and downtown SS at a budget friendly price point and it is very diverse which is the best part of SS [/quote]

People obviously view diversity differently. We ruled out New Hampshire Estates specifically because we thought it was not diverse from both a racial and SES standpoint.   I have also heard people say good things about the school, but I disagree with the characterization as diverse.  This was a frustrating dynamic in our search for SS schools, because many people use the word diversity as if it were synonymous with minority and poverty.  Diversity should signify a mix of people of many different backgrounds, but often I found when people told me a school was diverse they were just trying to tell me that it was a high FARMs school.[/quote]

I also agree with this.  I worked for a time in the early 2000s at Montgomery Knolls ES, which was (and probably still is) truly diverse--the racial/ethnicity breakdown was something like 25% black, 40% Hispanic, 20% white, 15% Asian.  Some of the black kids were AA, some were Ethiopian or West African.  Some Hispanic kids were Spanish speakers, some were not.  There were ESOL students across the groups.  Enough FARMs to get to a focus school, but still many "comfortably living" SES families.  Most of the higher SES kids were white (but not all), but the school as a whole was very mixed.  I appreciated that atmosphere and it seemed like a great learning environment for ALL students.

NHE is 77% one group, 17% of another, and less than 5% of everyone else.  That is not diverse.  I grew up going to schools that were 75-90% my racial group, and I do not think it was beneficial for me in this respect, although the schools themselves were good.  I want more true diversity for my children (and I am not white).[/quote]

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