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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Indian here and I am not able to wrap my head around OP's question. When looking for a school, I have looked for diverse schools, that diversity could come from any race, religion, I have never looked for Indian kids specifically. As a minority, I understand you may feel a little out of place in a 90% White school but if a school has 30% - 40% minority population (Asians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, AA etc) then what exactly is the issue? Interestingly my kid's class has 5 Indian kids and he doens't have any level of friendship with them, all his friends are Chinese, Korean. Kids will like who they like, we should encourage exposure to different cultures, races and not try to put our kids in a bubble.[/quote]

I’m Indian and I agree with you completely!  This thread is nuts.  The one post looking for specifically Hindi speaking Hindus??  What in the world?

And to the PPs defending the OP, I find that baffling as well.  Some of you claim to be disgusted by the White posters on this Forum, but OP’s request is perfectly acceptable?  Such a double standard.  Either it’s acceptable for any race or not acceptable at all to ask about schools with certain races.

FTR, I would be 75% certain that looking for schools with lots of ‘Indians’ [b]is pretty much code[/b] for having a low percentage of AA (Kalus) and Latino kids.  [/quote]

If you use that code, it doesn't mean that everybody else does. [/quote]

+1 I don't understand why the pp had to bring that offensive term into this discussion. And turns out they were wrong too -- the school cluster that was discussed the most in this context was RM, and their demographics reflect MoCo reasonably well (albeit under-representing whites and over-representing Asians): https://www.schooldigger.com/go/MD/schools/0048000902/school.aspx.

I know this has been expressed multiple times here already, but people, before leaping onto your soap boxes, please just [b]read [/b]what's actually being written by posters. Wanting opportunities to interact with people from your own community and wanting diversity are not mutually exclusive goals (see RM).

(Also, I think the poster who asked about religions and languages was trying to be funny because that question made no sense.)[/quote]

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