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It wouldn't add time to your commute if you are taking the metro.

How can you possibly know this, if you don't know where PP lives and where PP works?

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We're in a W school and DD's friends are very diverse. If I go by her closest friend group and recent b-day party attendees they include 3 black, 4 asian, 1 middle eastern, and 2 white girls. One of the white girls is half asian. DS has a similar but not identical mix of friends. In comparison we've gone to two different parties in Silver Spring with old friends and almost all the kids/people there were white.

I think the races/cultures mix more in the W schools. It might be because there is no majority in some of the schools, the kids are all from similar highly educated families, and the SES is not at the extremes.

Last year there were no more than 104 black students at Whitman High School, which had 2,085 students.

Also, are the kids at your daughter's birthday parties Asian immigrants, or are they Asian-American? At my kids' schools, almost everybody is Asian-American.

Its probably Wootton or WJ.

Curious as to why it matters if the Asian kids were born in the US or overseas? I know that we have friends who moved here after the first kid was born, some who grew up in overseas but whose kids were born here and some who hold dual citizenship. Lots of different scenarios. Why exactly does would this matter?

Because kids who were born and raised in the US are American.

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We're in a W school and DD's friends are very diverse. If I go by her closest friend group and recent b-day party attendees they include 3 black, 4 asian, 1 middle eastern, and 2 white girls. One of the white girls is half asian. DS has a similar but not identical mix of friends. In comparison we've gone to two different parties in Silver Spring with old friends and almost all the kids/people there were white.

I think the races/cultures mix more in the W schools. It might be because there is no majority in some of the schools, the kids are all from similar highly educated families, and the SES is not at the extremes.

Last year there were no more than 104 black students at Whitman High School, which had 2,085 students.

Also, are the kids at your daughter's birthday parties Asian immigrants, or are they Asian-American? At my kids' schools, almost everybody is Asian-American.

Its probably Wootton or WJ.

Curious as to why it matters if the Asian kids were born in the US or overseas? I know that we have friends who moved here after the first kid was born, some who grew up in overseas but whose kids were born here and some who hold dual citizenship. Lots of different scenarios. Why exactly does would this matter?

Anonymous wrote:

It wouldn't add time to your commute if you are taking the metro.

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We're in a W school and DD's friends are very diverse. If I go by her closest friend group and recent b-day party attendees they include 3 black, 4 asian, 1 middle eastern, and 2 white girls. One of the white girls is half asian. DS has a similar but not identical mix of friends. In comparison we've gone to two different parties in Silver Spring with old friends and almost all the kids/people there were white.

I think the races/cultures mix more in the W schools. It might be because there is no majority in some of the schools, the kids are all from similar highly educated families, and the SES is not at the extremes.

Last year there were no more than 104 black students at Whitman High School, which had 2,085 students.

Also, are the kids at your daughter's birthday parties Asian immigrants, or are they Asian-American? At my kids' schools, almost everybody is Asian-American.

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But we value other things too. We value public transportation and walkable community- like being around farmers markets etc. we wouldn’t have that if we moved further out.

Actually these things do exist out in higher ranked areas too. The Shady Grove red line is close to W schools so there are parents who drive 5-10 minutes and then take the metro. There are farmers markets all over. Many areas that feed into RM are walkable -Fallsgrove, RTC and there are tons of farmers markets. Wootton is getting an area with Trader Joe's, restaurants etc off Travilah RD. Churchill has Park Potomac and the Village. QO has Lakelands and the Kentlands.

Right, but those areas would add a ton of time to our commute. So we prefer close-in SS, and have been very happy with the schools. Yes, there are more lower SES kids in the schools, but they do a great job of having a mix of classes for all types of abilities. My children are in a very competitive cohort. We brought in our starter home, but love the area so much instead of moving out of the DCC we renovated and are staying in our house.

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But we value other things too. We value public transportation and walkable community- like being around farmers markets etc. we wouldn’t have that if we moved further out.

Actually these things do exist out in higher ranked areas too. The Shady Grove red line is close to W schools so there are parents who drive 5-10 minutes and then take the metro. There are farmers markets all over. Many areas that feed into RM are walkable -Fallsgrove, RTC and there are tons of farmers markets. Wootton is getting an area with Trader Joe's, restaurants etc off Travilah RD. Churchill has Park Potomac and the Village. QO has Lakelands and the Kentlands.

Anonymous wrote:We're in a W school and DD's friends are very diverse. If I go by her closest friend group and recent b-day party attendees they include 3 black, 4 asian, 1 middle eastern, and 2 white girls. One of the white girls is half asian. DS has a similar but not identical mix of friends. In comparison we've gone to two different parties in Silver Spring with old friends and almost all the kids/people there were white.

I think the races/cultures mix more in the W schools. It might be because there is no majority in some of the schools, the kids are all from similar highly educated families, and the SES is not at the extremes.

Anonymous wrote:We're in a W school and DD's friends are very diverse. If I go by her closest friend group and recent b-day party attendees they include 3 black, 4 asian, 1 middle eastern, and 2 white girls. One of the white girls is half asian. DS has a similar but not identical mix of friends. In comparison we've gone to two different parties in Silver Spring with old friends and almost all the kids/people there were white.

I think the races/cultures mix more in the W schools. It might be because there is no majority in some of the schools, the kids are all from similar highly educated families, and the SES is not at the extremes.

Anonymous wrote:We're in a W school and DD's friends are very diverse. If I go by her closest friend group and recent b-day party attendees they include 3 black, 4 asian, 1 middle eastern, and 2 white girls. One of the white girls is half asian. DS has a similar but not identical mix of friends. In comparison we've gone to two different parties in Silver Spring with old friends and almost all the kids/people there were white.

I think the races/cultures mix more in the W schools. It might be because there is no majority in some of the schools, the kids are all from similar highly educated families, and the SES is not at the extremes.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone loves W schools so much

Our DD is very happy at our DCC school

Not only has she taken many AP courses, she has become surprisingly comfortable with a shank in her hand - has yet to lose a single knife fight. So proud

My kid reported that a friend said her parents wouldn't let her go to a middle school in Germantown because there are gangs and she might get pregnant. It wasn't clear whether the friend knew how you get pregnant.

LOL! How about this- tell the parents to "parent" and tell their daughter not to get pregnant!