Beware quince orchard Parents.

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I think we all know what it means when affluent, educated parents talk about how it would be better for the poor kids to go to a different school. It means: we don't want those kids at our school.

This so doesn't apply to the above situation because the Travilah/Dufief parents who want the additional kids are more affluent than the RCES parents. Stop trying to cover MCPS incompetence and inaction with race issues that don't exist.

yah, can’t imagine why I read this and thought there were racist tones from rich white parents wanting black and brown Kids out of “our” school with “our” kids

URM students do very well at Travilah and this would be better for them.

She’s baiting you - race baiting.

[Anonymous]

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So what if they did decide to bus kids to create more diversity? That benefits all kids

No it doesn't. By bussing kids from far away into a school that is 400 students over capacity while the school system does nothing to relieve the crowding, all students are harmed. What is so damn frustrating for parents at Rachel Carson is that MCPS will not do anything to alleviate this. Travilah, Dufief and Cold Spring all are under enrolled and need students. Favorite teachers have been pushed into retirement or transferred. Staff has been cut creating logistical issues. Those schools would happily take more kids. MCPS said no to allowing voluntary COSAs from RCES into those schools because those kids would be higher SES kids. MCPS also said no to bussing the lower income students that travel from further away to RCES over to Travilah or Dufief because that would leave RCES with not enough minority students. Its reasonable that Cold Soring is too far but Travilah or Dufief are not. URM students do very well at Travilah and this would be better for them.

Its so stupid that all the kids at RCES, Travilah and Dufief need to suffer because some dim wit that cares more about balancing the racial profiles than educating students is in charge at central office.

Besides paying for an addition to Dufief ES, and then rezoning when the addition is complete.

As for your statement about how it would benefit those kids from the apartments to get rezoned away from Rachel Carson ES - I think we all know what it means when affluent, educated parents talk about how it would be better for the poor kids to go to a different school. It means: we don't want those kids at our school. I've been on the receiving end of it myself during an elementary-school rezoning (and I am affluent and educated). How much happier your area would be at a different school where you would have a better sense of community! they told us.

Oh, please. When a new school is built, some neighborhoods wind up moving to a new school. Otherwise it sits empty. Who do you suggest go to a new school - a community that's far away from it or one that's nearby??? I live far away from my child's school, and if a new school opened in my neighborhood, I'd certainly prefer to attend there.

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The reason these parents are so annoyed at RCES is because most elementaries in the wootton cluster don't have boundaries like this drawn to include FARMS. The kids could have just as easily been sent to Dufief. RCES, Jones Lane, and Thurgood Marshall all have kids from Gaithersburg sent into their schools. I know because I sent my kids to Jones Lane a little while back. These kids are disruptive in class, disrespectful, and bully other kids. There are multiple instances so no one on here can deny that is not true, especially if you don't have first hand experience as a parent at one of these schools. In the Wootton cluster only Fallsmead ES sends kids from out of the area into the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason these parents are so annoyed at RCES is because most elementaries in the wootton cluster don't have boundaries like this drawn to include FARMS. The kids could have just as easily been sent to Dufief. RCES, Jones Lane, and Thurgood Marshall all have kids from Gaithersburg sent into their schools. I know because I sent my kids to Jones Lane a little while back. These kids are disruptive in class, disrespectful, and bully other kids. There are multiple instances so no one on here can deny that is not true, especially if you don't have first hand experience as a parent at one of these schools. In the Wootton cluster only Fallsmead ES sends kids from out of the area into the school.

Yes. I also wonder how the kids from Governor Sq and the other apt complexes on that side of Great Seneca feel socially in the school. Do they fit in with the Kentlands/Lakelands kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason these parents are so annoyed at RCES is because most elementaries in the wootton cluster don't have boundaries like this drawn to include FARMS. The kids could have just as easily been sent to Dufief. RCES, Jones Lane, and Thurgood Marshall all have kids from Gaithersburg sent into their schools. I know because I sent my kids to Jones Lane a little while back. These kids are disruptive in class, disrespectful, and bully other kids. There are multiple instances so no one on here can deny that is not true, especially if you don't have first hand experience as a parent at one of these schools. In the Wootton cluster only Fallsmead ES sends kids from out of the area into the school.

If so, that's because they've managed to zone poor families out of the area altogether, so it's not possible.

Where it is possible, MCPS does it. It's very common. And MCPS ought to do it. High-poverty schools are bad for everyone.