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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wanting a diverse neighborhood with a $600k income is Catch 22 because unless you go private, live in Shephard Park or Bethesda your kids are probably not going to be in the same socio-economic circles as the demographic groups you wanted them to get exposure to and it might have the undesired effect of making your privileged kids associate non-white kids with being middle and working class. Percentages are nothing more than numbers on paper - I would look and how integrated peer groups are at a school. From purely anecdotal experience it seems peer groups in places like Silver Spring are more diverse (ethnically and economically) than a lot of other places mentioned in this thread.[/quote]

Unless you consider someplace like McLean which is much more ethnically diverse than one would think in the public schools, but not SES diverse.[/quote]

It actually IS diverse SES-wise, it is just a different form of diversity. There are very few openly poor people in McLean but remember, close-in areas of McLean are full of relatively normal, modest-ish houses built in the 70s, and even brick ramblers built god knows when. Twenty, thirty years ago they were affordable to government workers and normal people, and even ten years ago a couple of, say, development workers or college professors could buy an older house in McLean.  Then you have openly rich people who build 2 million + houses.  And then there are apartment dwellers, not many but there are some.  [/quote]

Socio-economic diversity were the poors are college professors. LOL. Exactly PP's point.

Another point is that how much are the students of different SES backgrounds socializing with each other and part of the same peer groups? Diversity is nothing but a paper stat if kids of different backgrounds in these schools stay isolated and only hang out with other kids from the same racial, ethnic and/or SES backgrounds. [/quote]

That type of segregation is self-selected and I doubt you can do anything about it. It will be exactly the same at Wilson, btw. [/quote]

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