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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am moving to Maryland soon and I’d like to know which schools have the most diversity. Also, I’m looking for something that has high test scores as well. [/quote]

Depends what you mean by diverse.  My child's school is racially diverse.  He's white and 12% of the student population is white.  But it also comes with a low SES so it is a pretty miserable school.

Contrast to the very diverse small private school he came from, where he was also a racial minority.  But everyone obviously was middle class and higher.  That was an amazing experience and I wish we could have continued it.

If[b] I could have changed anything, I would have avoided low SES schools like the plague[/b].  [/quote]

Op, listen to this pp. [/quote]
AKA, "I got mine and to hell with everyone else."[/quote]

Serious question, what good is my child's presence in a failing school?  Yes, I contribute to PTSA and volunteer, but one person doesn't make a difference.  25 people don't make difference.   And that's about the size of the active PTSA members, who are all white and Asian/South Asian.  In a predominately Latino and Black school.

The causes of the problems are much bigger than the school community.  They are things the schools cannot fix.[/quote]
Yes. That is why forced diversity in SES does not work. The realities are just too different. 
What these schools need is more funding and more social workers to help with the conversations that matter to them. Immigrant and single parent households, working-class parents and involvement with children, food security, childcare after hours, tutoring, mentoring. 
Simple statistics do nothing, the student body looks diverse on paper but the scores tell the real story. Low SES children need help, not quotas. That is real equity, not a mixing that makes inequalities so obvious that it becomes a problem no one talks about and which is not fixed at the core. [/quote]

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