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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if these towns technically are on the Main Line (there is a local train station), but the towns and housing stock are nice and the schools are good. But you don’t see much diversity.

Berwyn 
Wayne
Malvern [/quote]

All these towns have sizable and growing populations of Asians and South Asians. Berwyn and Malvern mainly feed into Tredyffrin schools, which are 61% white, 28% Asian. Wayne is Radnor schools and is whiter, 69% white and 17% Asian. Or are we defining diversity solely as black? I'll grant you that they don't have many blacks. But you should be clearer by what you mean with diversity. [/quote]

Literally nobody considers schools that are 86% white & asian diverse. Don’t be obtuse.

And lots of exclusionary zoning going on up there, and MASSIVE funding disparities between school districts a mile apart from one another. [/quote]

Have you ever been to NYC or parts of DC where this is also true? [/quote]

NY State with the “town school districts” has that problem, too.

There aren’t many schools in the DC area with crumbling buildings, no field trips whatsoever, one guidance counselor serving multiple schools or 30 kids in a classroom. That’s how it is if you’re in a town on the wrong side of the tracks in NJ, PA, CT, NY etc. PA is one of the worst in this regard: https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/pennsylvania-school-funding-is-unconstitutional-judge-says-heres-what-could-happen-next/2023/02 Sorry.[/quote]

Whatever is your point? It sucks to be poor anywhere.[/quote]

It sucks a lot more in some places than in others.[/quote]

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