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Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- 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.

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

So Jewish students aren't white?

How about economic diversity - how's that in the W schools?

Obviously the majority are in the higher SES brackets, but 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.

You are stretching.

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

FARMS at Whitman: <5%
FARMS at WJ: 7.8%
FARMS at Churchill: 5.3%

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

I don't think that's a bad thing.

"Not a bad thing" = A Good Thing

How is the lack of racial and SES diversity a good thing, exactly? Can you explain please?

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Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- 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.

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

Ummm...talk about silly comments. Since when are Jews not white? Granted, not all are white, but sheesh....

My kids are at CESJDS. That school is at racially homogeneous as you can get. There maybe an outlier or 2 but the school is overwhelmingly white. At shul, there are 2 Korean boys--- they were adopted. I've never met an Ethiopean Jew but I know they exist.

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Anonymous wrote:So other than the 4 ws and the blair and RM magnets, are there any other acceptable schools? What about Northwest, and Quince Orchard?

Not even close. Those schools have too much "diversity". Code word for too many blacks and Hispanics.

Oh please. With the exception of "Whiteman" aka Whitman, these schools are no more than 60% white. That's pretty diverse in my book ESP for a high SES area, top school.

The PP said that "diversity" is a code word for too many blacks and Hispanics.

Whitman is 70% white, 12% Asian, 9% Hispanic, less than 5% black, 5% mixed.
Churchill is 56% white, 22% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 9% black.
Wootton is 47% white, 35% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% black.
Walter Johnson is 56% white, 13% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 8% black, 5% mixed.

MCPS as a whole is 37% white, 16% Asian, 23% Hispanic, 23% black.

Do you disagree with the PP?