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Well, it's white flight and in places like MoCo the white liberals talk a good game and want their kids at Whitman or Churchill.  What do you expect? [/quote]
Exactly. I find it ironic how everyone on this board is against segregated schools, yet pays an arm and a leg to live in an all-white neighborhood.[/quote]

Well, except that there is a lot more to Montgomery County than Bethesda and Potomac. And even Whitman and Churchill are only 70% white and 58% white, respectively. And, PP, why are you assuming that everyone on this board is white?[/quote]

Well, but at least for Whitman, 12 percent is Asian, so that you have 82 percent of the school either white or Asian.

And I believe the article is pretty clear that even within Montgomery County, there's segregation (i.e. the lower-income and either black or Hispanic students are generally concentrated in a few schools).

Reading through the MOCO schools threads, I've seen lots of posters steer others away from some Silver Spring schools, and guess what, they tend to be the schools that are *not* predominantly white.[/quote]

I would steer somebody away from Silver Spring schools like Northwood and Blair but I would also point out there are diverse schools without the crime rates of Silver Spring like RM, QO, Northwest and Watkins Mill. I would also point out that Blake is better when it comes to crime. I would also steer them away from Seneca Valley and Gaithersburg right now.

Sorry if that hurts the housing market in those areas but let's do something with the schools besides adding magnet kids to them to make it seem like they are better schools.[/quote]

You say "let's do something with the schools," but how is steering middle class families away from them doing something for them?  How is fear-mongering helping?

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