Anonymous wrote:The reality is Kennedy was a good school. The housing stock around Kennedy was nice and still is. The Glenmont apartments always housed a mix of minoritied but you had a
Decent enough mix at Kennedy to have a decent school.

But around the mid 90s low an behold the metro came to glenmont and with it came the ghetto and now the apartments and surround area is undesirable. (Note: if you don't have kids it still has nice homes and a fairly safe place to live).

But back to Kenney and in the real world. Those who get the best education at the best schools have a track record of earning the best incomes so we don't have to live in "the ghetto". So we move to the best location.

Why would I ever send my kids to a Kennedy to be with more
Low income kids when I can send them to one of the top high schools in Potomac? Less diversity? Sure. Better education, you bet, better opportunities for success, yep. Better earning potential, yep. That's life, that's reality, and the most important thing is developing future earning power for a successful life.

Anonymous wrote:I didn't read any responses - only the original question - and my answer is absolutely not.

As I zip up my flameproof suit, I will say that I actually don't care one bit how diverse or non-diverse my child's school is.

I grew up in pretty much zero diversity. There were no people of color at my high school that I can remember. Literally, no black, no latino, no asian, nothing. I didn't know anyone Jewish until I was out of college.

I don't think it scarred me. I love learning about other backgrounds and cultures and did so as an adult, rather than as a child.

I married a person of color and we have mixed-race/ethnic children. In their public elementary school, they were the diversity - it was overwhelmingly wealthy, white people. Fine with me. Their schools now are more diverse as they have gotten older.

I want them to have the best education and would never dream of pulling them out of a school due to lack of diversity, or searching for schools based solely on that.

Anonymous wrote:I didn't read any responses - only the original question - and my answer is absolutely not.

As I zip up my flameproof suit, I will say that I actually don't care one bit how diverse or non-diverse my child's school is.

I grew up in pretty much zero diversity. There were no people of color at my high school that I can remember. Literally, no black, no latino, no asian, nothing. I didn't know anyone Jewish until I was out of college.

I don't think it scarred me. I love learning about other backgrounds and cultures and did so as an adult, rather than as a child.

I married a person of color and we have mixed-race/ethnic children. In their public elementary school, they were the diversity - it was overwhelmingly wealthy, white people. Fine with me. Their schools now are more diverse as they have gotten older.

I want them to have the best education and would never dream of pulling them out of a school due to lack of diversity, or searching for schools based solely on that.

Anonymous wrote:My ideal school would be 25% indian, 25% jewish, 25% east asian (chinese/korean/japanese), 25% hispanic and/or black.

Anonymous wrote:My ideal school would be 25% indian, 25% jewish, 25% east asian (chinese/korean/japanese), 25% hispanic and/or black.

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Anonymous wrote:It may not be popular or PC or what ever the hell is in vouge right now, but I would never knowingly place my child in a low performing school for the sake of social diversity. I know a family that has done this and it, shall we say, is not going well.

my brother's child goes to a school where 60% of parents work at google. yes, the school is very "high performing". is that the kind of school that you would send your kids to?

Guaranteed it is incredibly ethnically diverse.

there are a lot of Indians and asians.

personally I would try to keep my child out of that school.

Anonymous wrote:We went through this debate.

Kind of ironically it was the spouse that went to a "snobby" high school that wanted to consider some place more diverse and the spouse that went to a "bad" school that wanted somewhere that fed into one of the snobby schools.

The one that insisted on living in an area with a school with a good reputation brought up this article about Kennedy in Montgomery County:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/12/11/kennedys-melting-pot-reaches-boiling-point/1bfcfbf4-0668-4875-947f-518e3620b809/?utm_term=.dd820cd207c5

Which if I recall correctly, talks about how Kennedy shifted over to a minority majority population, about how some people who wanted to stay for the diversity but then felt that the education was lacking, etc. And I might have it confused with something else (it's been a while since I read it) but think there were some issues about segregation of students in a special program and also the racial lines when one particular group tried to take charge of some things and the other group didn't want to follow. So I think is an example about how diversity didn't work too well. (just summing up the article and am not necessarily saying that it's my point of view)

Anonymous wrote:The reality is Kennedy was a good school. The housing stock around Kennedy was nice and still is. The Glenmont apartments always housed a mix of minoritied but you had a
Decent enough mix at Kennedy to have a decent school.

But around the mid 90s low an behold the metro came to glenmont and with it came the ghetto and now the apartments and surround area is undesirable. (Note: if you don't have kids it still has nice homes and a fairly safe place to live).

But back to Kenney and in the real world. Those who get the best education at the best schools have a track record of earning the best incomes so we don't have to live in "the ghetto". So we move to the best location.

Why would I ever send my kids to a Kennedy to be with more
Low income kids when I can send them to one of the top high schools in Potomac? Less diversity? Sure. Better education, you bet, better opportunities for success, yep. Better earning potential, yep. That's life, that's reality, and the most important thing is developing future earning power for a successful life.

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Anonymous wrote:The reality is Kennedy was a good school. The housing stock around Kennedy was nice and still is. The Glenmont apartments always housed a mix of minoritied but you had a
Decent enough mix at Kennedy to have a decent school.

But around the mid 90s low an behold the metro came to glenmont and with it came the ghetto and now the apartments and surround area is undesirable. (Note: if you don't have kids it still has nice homes and a fairly safe place to live).

But back to Kenney and in the real world. Those who get the best education at the best schools have a track record of earning the best incomes so we don't have to live in "the ghetto". So we move to the best location.

Why would I ever send my kids to a Kennedy to be with more
Low income kids when I can send them to one of the top high schools in Potomac? Less diversity? Sure. Better education, you bet, better opportunities for success, yep. Better earning potential, yep. That's life, that's reality, and the most important thing is developing future earning power for a successful life.

because I'm not a fucking racist scared of poor or brown people

You totally missed pp's point. Wanting the best for your kids will never be wrong. people get into this mindset that they have to just settle for bad schools because its the right thing to do or something. It doesn't make you a better person and it doesn't do any favors for your kids. Get a grip.

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You totally missed pp's point. Wanting the best for your kids will never be wrong. people get into this mindset that they have to just settle for bad schools because its the right thing to do or something. It doesn't make you a better person and it doesn't do any favors for your kids. Get a grip.