Anonymous wrote:For anyone at Churchill who looks down on students from other areas of the county, read the emails Mrs. Heckert has sent out this year:

* Churchill needs police to investigate swastikas

* Churchill needs police to investigate N word cards to see if a hate crime

* Churchill has 3 students sent to hospital on the same day for using an illegal substance on school grounds. Yes, police involvement because of the drugs.

* Churchill has fights

What was not emailed but my children say is a problem is that drug dealers are students at the school. It would be progress if school resource officers randomly brought in drug sniffing dogs to smell student backpacks.

Anyway, how can parents think Churchill is so much better than other schools as far as school climate?

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Anonymous wrote:Diversity brings exposure to different perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to greater empathy and understanding among students.

+10 so true and something that's in dire need at Churchill.

Diversity is not needed at Churchill, Wootton or Whitman. Haters step aside.

I would think the almost weekly emails from the principal (social media threats, swastikas, n-word cards, etc.) are examples of why greater diversity is needed at Churchill. I can't speak about the other two schools because I do not have children there.

I personally went to a school where white students were a minority and as a white person, I never experienced what is going on at Churchill. Besides racial diversity, we had a mix of socio-economic levels in the school so I think I also had an understanding for peers who could not do after school activities because they worked to help financially support their families. College opportunities due to family financial situations were not a given, and many of my friends paid their own way through college or a trade school. They were hard working and mature individuals because of the responsibilities they had to have. My best friend (who's family fled political persecution from Burma) is now a world class pediatrician who does research on rare genetic disorders.

If someone dared to write a swastika or pass out an n-word card at my high school, they would have been a social outcast. Students would have spoken up to them directly and school staff would have dished out severe punishment for the offenders. Such acts just were not done because there was no room for them to have social acceptability.

Separate is also not considered equal in the United States. The restructuring of high school boundaries is long overdue by the Board of Education. Churchill is one school that would benefit from the restructuring.

That is what is needed here too.

"diversity" is a good thing to have. But it is not something you deliberately make. If you live in a diverse area, you get it.

And if you live in a diverse and aren't getting diversity, it needs to be corrected.

Agreed MoCo is diverse and its schools should reflect that

Churchill is 45% minority enrollment. In comparison to the county wide statistics it is a little light on black and hispanics but heavy on asians. I'm not sure how much more diverse you could make it without bussing.

That's irrelevant. Churchill is 5% FARMS whereas the county is 50%. Yes, you chose to live in a county with 50% FARMS.

Yes but that is your neighborhood, my neighborhood is much nicer than that. And MoCo has a neighborhood school system. See how that works, you chose to live on the poor side of town

Moco also once had a lot of things. Recently the BOE approved diversity busing to correct this. Accept it or move.

Anonymous wrote:For anyone at Churchill who looks down on students from other areas of the county, read the emails Mrs. Heckert has sent out this year:

* Churchill needs police to investigate swastikas

* Churchill needs police to investigate N word cards to see if a hate crime

* Churchill has 3 students sent to hospital on the same day for using an illegal substance on school grounds. Yes, police involvement because of the drugs.

* Churchill has fights

What was not emailed but my children say is a problem is that drug dealers are students at the school. It would be progress if school resource officers randomly brought in drug sniffing dogs to smell student backpacks.

Anyway, how can parents think Churchill is so much better than other schools as far as school climate?

Anonymous wrote:For anyone at Churchill who looks down on students from other areas of the county, read the emails Mrs. Heckert has sent out this year:

* Churchill needs police to investigate swastikas

* Churchill needs police to investigate N word cards to see if a hate crime

* Churchill has 3 students sent to hospital on the same day for using an illegal substance on school grounds. Yes, police involvement because of the drugs.

* Churchill has fights

What was not emailed but my children say is a problem is that drug dealers are students at the school. It would be progress if school resource officers randomly brought in drug sniffing dogs to smell student backpacks.

Anyway, how can parents think Churchill is so much better than other schools as far as school climate?

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Anonymous wrote:Diversity brings exposure to different perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to greater empathy and understanding among students.

I feel sorry for students in Japan, China and other countries with little racial diversity. These students will never be able to learn empathy and understanding.

Bad example. I lived in Japan for a while and it was the most racist place I've ever been.

Kids self-segregate, too.

There will be little to no mixing if this measure is enforced.

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Anonymous wrote:Diversity brings exposure to different perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to greater empathy and understanding among students.

I feel sorry for students in Japan, China and other countries with little racial diversity. These students will never be able to learn empathy and understanding.

Bad example. I lived in Japan for a while and it was the most racist place I've ever been.

Kids self-segregate, too.

There will be little to no mixing if this measure is enforced.

Says someone who does not go to a racially diverse high school.

Adults self segregate and teach their children to disrespect the differences that they have little appreciation or understanding of. PP's comment is a throw back to the ideas of the 1960s white flight fear during desegregation.

I was a product of the benefits of busing to achieve racial diversity in the 1970s. I knew students as friends, not because of the street they lived on or the color of their skin but because of their character and intellect. My school did not have the racist comments that students at Churchill feel free to spout off to other students.

I hope PP is not a member of the Churchill community. If he/she is, the viewpoint would explain many of the serious problems in our community.

You’re crazy or naive, I too went to a diverse high school in the early 90s and we had so many people throwing around the N word, drawing swastikas and dicks everywhere they could and girls getting there their tops ripped off and asses smacked. Fights daily, drugs, drugs everywhere along with poor people acting rich and rich kids acting poor. Blair sucked then and it still kind of sucks

Lots of us survived but lots failed too. This utopia you speak of doesn’t exist, you were clearly a girl and oblivious.

Yikes. Was your high school in MCPS?

Totally not my experience but I don't judge people based on zip code, income, or skin color. To say Churchill will end up as perverse as the high school you went to if the BOE changed it's boundaries to allow for greater diversity is craziness and racist.

MCPS has a student code of conduct that is designed to keep a school from becoming the travesty you have described.

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Anonymous wrote:Diversity brings exposure to different perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to greater empathy and understanding among students.

I feel sorry for students in Japan, China and other countries with little racial diversity. These students will never be able to learn empathy and understanding.

Bad example. I lived in Japan for a while and it was the most racist place I've ever been.

Kids self-segregate, too.

There will be little to no mixing if this measure is enforced.

Says someone who does not go to a racially diverse high school.

Adults self segregate and teach their children to disrespect the differences that they have little appreciation or understanding of. PP's comment is a throw back to the ideas of the 1960s white flight fear during desegregation.

I was a product of the benefits of busing to achieve racial diversity in the 1970s. I knew students as friends, not because of the street they lived on or the color of their skin but because of their character and intellect. My school did not have the racist comments that students at Churchill feel free to spout off to other students.

I hope PP is not a member of the Churchill community. If he/she is, the viewpoint would explain many of the serious problems in our community.

You’re crazy or naive, I too went to a diverse high school in the early 90s and we had so many people throwing around the N word, drawing swastikas and dicks everywhere they could and girls getting there their tops ripped off and asses smacked. Fights daily, drugs, drugs everywhere along with poor people acting rich and rich kids acting poor. Blair sucked then and it still kind of sucks

Lots of us survived but lots failed too. This utopia you speak of doesn’t exist, you were clearly a girl and oblivious.

Anonymous wrote:The diversity bus sure needs to have a stop at Churchill.

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Anonymous wrote:Diversity brings exposure to different perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to greater empathy and understanding among students.

I feel sorry for students in Japan, China and other countries with little racial diversity. These students will never be able to learn empathy and understanding.

Bad example. I lived in Japan for a while and it was the most racist place I've ever been.

Kids self-segregate, too.

There will be little to no mixing if this measure is enforced.