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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even the Washington Post has referred to &quot;the W schools&quot; -- and they have always been Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Winston Churchill.

What sets these schools apart? They still have predominantly white students from upper income homes, and parents will pay a premium to move into the clusters that feed into these schools.

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What a silly comment? These schools also have many Asian and Jewish students so they are not all white. WJ is also very international. [/quote]

So Jewish students aren't white?

How about economic diversity - how's that in the W schools?[/quote]

Obviously the majority are in the higher SES brackets, but [b]each school has neighborhoods and pockets that feed from lower-income areas. WJ has the subsidized housing that is part of the apartments in North Bethesda and Kensington. Whitman has the students who are bused in. And Churchill has Scotland[/b].[/quote]

You are stretching.

The fact is, they have virtually no economic diversity.  And it is getting worse, not better.

FARMS at Whitman:  &lt;5%
FARMS at WJ:  7.8%
FARMS at Churchill:  5.3%

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19285/de-facto-segregation-threatens-montgomery-public-schools/[/quote]

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