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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find this to be very true. My dd's elementary school, 73% white. Her middle school 63% white. Her high school was 52% white. Both middle and elementary schools are still 9 on great schools, high school has dropped to 6 this year. DD just started college. And this is one of "less" segregated areas in MCPS. New town-homes and houses built in the last 2 years were sold for 500K and 800K respectively. I can't imagine that socioeconomic distribution is equal, not even close. DD had white and black friends, but very few Hispanic friends in HS. They are predominantly poor, according to dd and do not do well in school. I think this tells us that school groups are segregated within the school too. I am in favor of busing and desegregation in MoCo. Only good things will come out of it. Rich parents will still pay for their kids tutors and enrichment even if their kids are attending Einstein, rich white parents should have nothing to fear when it comes to desegregating schools and even busing. The backlash here is pure racism, nothing else. Even the most enlightened limousine liberals still get scared when they see a person of color near them. If you don't want your kids to end up racist, you need to expose them to diversity. Only hearing real life stories from kids "unlike" them,  who are really just like them, like all of us,be it black, Hispanic, poor or rich, will make your kids open minded and realize the very real racial and economic divide in the country. If your kids stay in your lily white neighborhood they will end up racist, there is no doubt of that at all.[/quote]

FYI, from talking to kids in even more diverse high schools, the groups are still self-segregating. [/quote]

Yes, that's always the defense on DCUM. There's no point to desegregated schools, because the kids will just self-segregate anyway, so why bother?![/quote]

I’ve recently been made aware of a school in NoVa that has a very low white/Asian population yet they’re the only ones that perform well.  They take all the harder classes and “desegregation” has not seemed to help at all.  Scroll on down to the race/ethnicity section and see for yourself.  That is basically 2 schools: 1 with all the white kids in white classes and another with Hispanics and blacks in the other (regular) classes.  Tell me, how is it working out there?

https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/manassas/1049-Osbourn-High-School/[/quote]

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