MD_Suave t1_jc087d9 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 2:05 AM

Instead of a focus on diversity, maybe education should be a priority. Columbia is diverse.

descartes_blanche t1_jc0vboy wrote on March 13, 2023 at 5:37 AM

Diversity is educational. Learning about and alongside cultures, perspectives and experiences different from ones own is an invaluable life skill.

Catcher in the Rye and Pre-Calc are the same thing you can get anywhere

MD_Suave t1_jcdmd5k wrote on March 16, 2023 at 1:48 AM

If you believe that a the education between a school in a city and a school in Howard county are the same, you may need some more education. Diversity is good, but education is better.

Columbia was built to be a very diverse town all the way back in the 70's when It was planned. I don't live in collumbia and don't prefer it, but I also went to school at long reach and I can tell you I was a minority(white) in my high school. (First graduating class of Long Reach) I don't think of it as a bad thing.

descartes_blanche t1_jcdrs8n wrote on March 16, 2023 at 2:28 AM

I never said I believed that "a city" school was the same as a HoCo school, just like white students were not the minority at Long Reach when you claim to have graduated (98?). Additionally, Columbia was planned in the 60s since it was founded in '69.

HoCo schools are good because they were built with diversity in mind. Since they all served diverse socio-economic communities, sharing and allocating resources across the county actually took place and there's not really any bad schools.

Therefore, it's apparent that OP feels that an education received at any Columbia school is relatively equal, and wants to factor in diversity into their choice of school, as another family might factor in athletics and another theater.

You coming out against considering diversity, then claiming to be a white minority using anecdotal evidence kind of illustrates a certain kind of thinking that this family is probably hoping to avoid.

I would recommend Hammond