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+100

Looking for schools where there are lots of Indians seems just as strange as asking for schools where all the Whites are.

My wife is Indian origin and I am white. We are moving to DC area and likely to look for houses around Rockville, North Bethesda or close in Potomac. Anyone has input regarding elementary schools having concentration of Indian kids in this area? I would like to make some connections with Indian families due to our kids and we don't have any family in this area.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I think you need to be more explicit in your question. Are you looking for Hindi, Muslim or Christians from India? Are Sikh families acceptable? Are you willing to include families from Pakistan. Bangladesh or Sri Lanka? Are you looking for Hindi speakers or are Bengali or the languages of South India acceptable?

Having South Asian population of 10-15% will be great. We are not looking for specific language or religion.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian here and I am not able to wrap my head around OP's question. When looking for a school, I have looked for diverse schools, that diversity could come from any race, religion, I have never looked for Indian kids specifically. As a minority, I understand you may feel a little out of place in a 90% White school but if a school has 30% - 40% minority population (Asians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, AA etc) then what exactly is the issue? Interestingly my kid's class has 5 Indian kids and he doens't have any level of friendship with them, all his friends are Chinese, Korean. Kids will like who they like, we should encourage exposure to different cultures, races and not try to put our kids in a bubble.

It’s too bad you can’t get out of your own bubble and understand how people may think differently than you.

I am sorry I offended your feelings by admitting that diversity to me means all races/religions and not specifically people from one particular race. The problem with your thinking is that if a White person starts thinking your way, you are to first on to call them racists.

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Anonymous wrote:Indian here and I am not able to wrap my head around OP's question. When looking for a school, I have looked for diverse schools, that diversity could come from any race, religion, I have never looked for Indian kids specifically. As a minority, I understand you may feel a little out of place in a 90% White school but if a school has 30% - 40% minority population (Asians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, AA etc) then what exactly is the issue? Interestingly my kid's class has 5 Indian kids and he doens't have any level of friendship with them, all his friends are Chinese, Korean. Kids will like who they like, we should encourage exposure to different cultures, races and not try to put our kids in a bubble.

I’m Indian and I agree with you completely! This thread is nuts. The one post looking for specifically Hindi speaking Hindus?? What in the world?

And to the PPs defending the OP, I find that baffling as well. Some of you claim to be disgusted by the White posters on this Forum, but OP’s request is perfectly acceptable? Such a double standard. Either it’s acceptable for any race or not acceptable at all to ask about schools with certain races.

FTR, I would be 75% certain that looking for schools with lots of ‘Indians’ is pretty much code for having a low percentage of AA (Kalus) and Latino kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian here and I am not able to wrap my head around OP's question. When looking for a school, I have looked for diverse schools, that diversity could come from any race, religion, I have never looked for Indian kids specifically. As a minority, I understand you may feel a little out of place in a 90% White school but if a school has 30% - 40% minority population (Asians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, AA etc) then what exactly is the issue? Interestingly my kid's class has 5 Indian kids and he doens't have any level of friendship with them, all his friends are Chinese, Korean. Kids will like who they like, we should encourage exposure to different cultures, races and not try to put our kids in a bubble.

I’m Indian and I agree with you completely! This thread is nuts. The one post looking for specifically Hindi speaking Hindus?? What in the world?

And to the PPs defending the OP, I find that baffling as well. Some of you claim to be disgusted by the White posters on this Forum, but OP’s request is perfectly acceptable? Such a double standard. Either it’s acceptable for any race or not acceptable at all to ask about schools with certain races.

FTR, I would be 75% certain that looking for schools with lots of ‘Indians’ is pretty much code for having a low percentage of AA (Kalus) and Latino kids.

If you use that code, it doesn't mean that everybody else does.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian here and I am not able to wrap my head around OP's question. When looking for a school, I have looked for diverse schools, that diversity could come from any race, religion, I have never looked for Indian kids specifically. As a minority, I understand you may feel a little out of place in a 90% White school but if a school has 30% - 40% minority population (Asians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, AA etc) then what exactly is the issue? Interestingly my kid's class has 5 Indian kids and he doens't have any level of friendship with them, all his friends are Chinese, Korean. Kids will like who they like, we should encourage exposure to different cultures, races and not try to put our kids in a bubble.

I’m Indian and I agree with you completely! This thread is nuts. The one post looking for specifically Hindi speaking Hindus?? What in the world?

And to the PPs defending the OP, I find that baffling as well. Some of you claim to be disgusted by the White posters on this Forum, but OP’s request is perfectly acceptable? Such a double standard. Either it’s acceptable for any race or not acceptable at all to ask about schools with certain races.

FTR, I would be 75% certain that looking for schools with lots of ‘Indians’ is pretty much code for having a low percentage of AA (Kalus) and Latino kids.

If you use that code, it doesn't mean that everybody else does.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian here and I am not able to wrap my head around OP's question. When looking for a school, I have looked for diverse schools, that diversity could come from any race, religion, I have never looked for Indian kids specifically. As a minority, I understand you may feel a little out of place in a 90% White school but if a school has 30% - 40% minority population (Asians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, AA etc) then what exactly is the issue? Interestingly my kid's class has 5 Indian kids and he doens't have any level of friendship with them, all his friends are Chinese, Korean. Kids will like who they like, we should encourage exposure to different cultures, races and not try to put our kids in a bubble.

I’m Indian and I agree with you completely! This thread is nuts. The one post looking for specifically Hindi speaking Hindus?? What in the world?

And to the PPs defending the OP, I find that baffling as well. Some of you claim to be disgusted by the White posters on this Forum, but OP’s request is perfectly acceptable? Such a double standard. Either it’s acceptable for any race or not acceptable at all to ask about schools with certain races.

FTR, I would be 75% certain that looking for schools with lots of ‘Indians’ is pretty much code for having a low percentage of AA (Kalus) and Latino kids.

Anonymous wrote:Indian here and I am not able to wrap my head around OP's question. When looking for a school, I have looked for diverse schools, that diversity could come from any race, religion, I have never looked for Indian kids specifically. As a minority, I understand you may feel a little out of place in a 90% White school but if a school has 30% - 40% minority population (Asians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, AA etc) then what exactly is the issue? Interestingly my kid's class has 5 Indian kids and he doens't have any level of friendship with them, all his friends are Chinese, Korean. Kids will like who they like, we should encourage exposure to different cultures, races and not try to put our kids in a bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also really like the Richard Montgomery cluster...lots of cultural diversity. My older elementary kids typically have had 1-2 kids of S. Asian origin in their classes. If you're looking for a higher number of S. Asian families, I think Potomac/N. Potomac have a higher concentration of S. Asians. We've been very happy with the diversity of the RM cluster!

Their are many people teaching S. Asian arts up and down the 270 corridor and in Montgomery County. Not quite like Ashburn but still plentiful!

Good to hear that there are 1-2 kids of South Asian origin in each class. I was not familiar with Ashburn and after seeing it mentioned in this thread earlier, I did some digging. We are not looking for Ashburn's level of concentration to be honest, that's too high a concentration and i am not sure it's it's even beneficial for our kids.

It looks like RM cluster is diverse. Any specific ES school feedback in RM? We don't know much about any schools.

Bayard Rustin is brand new, opening this fall to relieve overcrowding in the other 4 schools, and it will house the Chinese Immersion program. Ritchie Park, Beall, and College Gardens are well regarded, in nice neighborhoods, and have relatively similar cultural diversity. Of these three, College Gardens is the only one that's a IB PYP school. https://www.ibo.org/programmes/primary-years-programme/

The fourth school is Twinbrook. It also has a nice neighborhood feel but is different from the other schools in that it has a higher FARMS (free and reduced meals) and ESOL percentage. It is also a Title 1 school, so class sizes are smaller.

To get a general idea of a school, you can always search for: MCPS at a glance "name of school" for info on student population, race/ethnicity demographics, FARMS, ESOL, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian here and I am not able to wrap my head around OP's question. When looking for a school, I have looked for diverse schools, that diversity could come from any race, religion, I have never looked for Indian kids specifically. As a minority, I understand you may feel a little out of place in a 90% White school but if a school has 30% - 40% minority population (Asians, Middle Eastern, Hispanics, AA etc) then what exactly is the issue? Interestingly my kid's class has 5 Indian kids and he doens't have any level of friendship with them, all his friends are Chinese, Korean. Kids will like who they like, we should encourage exposure to different cultures, races and not try to put our kids in a bubble.

It’s too bad you can’t get out of your own bubble and understand how people may think differently than you.

I am sorry I offended your feelings by admitting that diversity to me means all races/religions and not specifically people from one particular race. The problem with your thinking is that if a White person starts thinking your way, you are to first on to call them racists.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It will be hard to find a HS with 8% south Asian population in MD. Also, you can look up the data provided by MCPS if you need to move due to wanting to have more than 8%. OP situation is still different that yours.

Why? Because all of the high schools have percentages higher than 8%, or because all of the high schools have percentages lower than 8%?

Pretty much all of the HS have less than 8%. I don't know if any HS has 8 or above.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It will be hard to find a HS with 8% south Asian population in MD. Also, you can look up the data provided by MCPS if you need to move due to wanting to have more than 8%. OP situation is still different that yours.

Why? Because all of the high schools have percentages higher than 8%, or because all of the high schools have percentages lower than 8%?

Pretty much all of the HS have less than 8%. I don't know if any HS has 8 or above.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We also really like the Richard Montgomery cluster...lots of cultural diversity. My older elementary kids typically have had 1-2 kids of S. Asian origin in their classes. If you're looking for a higher number of S. Asian families, I think Potomac/N. Potomac have a higher concentration of S. Asians. We've been very happy with the diversity of the RM cluster!

Their are many people teaching S. Asian arts up and down the 270 corridor and in Montgomery County. Not quite like Ashburn but still plentiful!

Good to hear that there are 1-2 kids of South Asian origin in each class. I was not familiar with Ashburn and after seeing it mentioned in this thread earlier, I did some digging. We are not looking for Ashburn's level of concentration to be honest, that's too high a concentration and i am not sure it's it's even beneficial for our kids.

It looks like RM cluster is diverse. Any specific ES school feedback in RM? We don't know much about any schools.