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You have reading comprehension skills and don't know what diversity means.  Please note the bolded.  Name one other HS in MCPS that has a higher % of Asian students. That was the point.  37% Asian is very high for this county considering Asians only makeup of something like 12% of the total population here.

[b]And 6% Hispanic and 7% Black does not make a school diverse.

[/b]Look at the stats for RM. That is what a diverse school looks like.

Asian - 26%
Black - 16.5
Hispanic 23.3
White  about 30
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That's reductive. "Diversity" does not mean "percent of Hispanic and black students". It means diversity. Wootton HS is a diverse school (except socioeconomically). And this is true even though there are high schools in MCPS that are more diverse. Just like affluent people are affluent, even though there are people who have more money.

Now, if you wanted to argue that Wootton is not representative of MCPS as a whole, you'd be on much more solid ground.[/quote]
In education terms, "diversity" means race and SES.  As a PP stated, when you have a school that has almost 40% of two races respectively, and less than 10% of the other two races, that is not diverse.

Most people with common sense would not call Wootton "diverse" in any way shape or form. You could have a school that is 100% white, but have students from all over  Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.  That school would be culturally diverse, but certainly not racially, and like I stated, in education, "diversity" <> cultural diversity; it means "racial diversity".[/quote]

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