Thread by @kwamerose

This is crazy: @wbaltv11 “lead political reporter” @kateamaraWBAL emailed Howard County Council members urging them to oppose legislation that would desegregate Public Schools.

“Currently school district boundaries in Howard County are drawn in a manner that concentrate students participating in the Free and Reduced Meals program [FARMS] into certain elementary, middle, and high schools,”

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In 2018, there were more than 12,000 FARMs students of Howard’s nearly 56,000 student population.

Black: 5,813 students
Hispanic: 3,302 students
Asian: 1,578 students
White: 1,124 students
Two or more races: 584 students

Read some of these written testimonies.

“We don’t want Urbanized Blacks”

apps.howardcountymd.gov/olis/Legislati…

Oakland Mills & Wilde Lake High School have the highest percentage of Black students in Howard County. Both are roughly 44% Black.

But despite being the same size as most of the other schools they received $10’s of thousands less in cash donations.

Written Testimony: “How Blacks destroyed Columbia and the rest of Howard County”

“The Columbia Apartments are overwhelm loaded with urbanized Blacks that are rude”.

Vipin Sahijwani sits on the board of Heritage Housing Partners a non profit committed to providing affordable housing” filed to incorporate “Families for Education Improvement” and hired a lobbyist to speak for them at last nights meeting against the desegregation of HC schools