Split articulation (bussing) for the new BCC Middle School?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Nobody wants a split articulation.

Say so loudly and repeatedly.

That isn't true, the Low HHIs will take it as a slight if the are forced out of Westland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will the point of paying premium money for that part of Silver Spring if you end up not really being in the BCC cluster except for High School.

Why would the new middle school be less "in the BCC cluster" than Westland?

Other desirable clusters have multiple middle schools, all of which are considered part of the cluster.

Think of it this way, some eastern schools where picked up and thrown a bone by court order to integrate BCC. So while you had to still go to your basically Silver Spring elementary school you would spend the majority of you focused years in a high wealth and expectations environment for middle and high school. Those houses that where blessed with BCC in turn get a measurable value bump. Now most of those kids will now go to a silver spring elementary, a middle class silver spring/Kensington middle school and will only mix with the affluent kids for a couple of years in high school.

At which point after spending the past decade with their own socioeconomic piers and clicking up when they do finally mix with the east county kids I suspect it will be harder than it already is for them. Seems waste to spend the extra money just for high school.

Yes it will be the BCC cluster but the kids will only see the true Bethesda/Chevy Chase kids for a few years at the end of their schooling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will the point of paying premium money for that part of Silver Spring if you end up not really being in the BCC cluster except for High School.

Why would the new middle school be less "in the BCC cluster" than Westland?

Other desirable clusters have multiple middle schools, all of which are considered part of the cluster.

Think of it this way, some eastern schools where picked up and thrown a bone by court order to integrate BCC. So while you had to still go to your basically Silver Spring elementary school you would spend the majority of you focused years in a high wealth and expectations environment for middle and high school. Those houses that where blessed with BCC in turn get a measurable value bump. Now most of those kids will now go to a silver spring elementary, a middle class silver spring/Kensington middle school and will only mix with the affluent kids for a couple of years in high school.

At which point after spending the past decade with their own socioeconomic piers and clicking up when they do finally mix with the east county kids I suspect it will be harder than it already is for them. Seems waste to spend the extra money just for high school.

Yes it will be the BCC cluster but the kids will only see the true Bethesda/Chevy Chase kids for a few years at the end of their schooling.

I have a feeling you have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. Do you even live in the cluster?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will the point of paying premium money for that part of Silver Spring if you end up not really being in the BCC cluster except for High School.

Why would the new middle school be less "in the BCC cluster" than Westland?

Other desirable clusters have multiple middle schools, all of which are considered part of the cluster.

Think of it this way, some eastern schools where picked up and thrown a bone by court order to integrate BCC. So while you had to still go to your basically Silver Spring elementary school you would spend the majority of you focused years in a high wealth and expectations environment for middle and high school. Those houses that where blessed with BCC in turn get a measurable value bump. Now most of those kids will now go to a silver spring elementary, a middle class silver spring/Kensington middle school and will only mix with the affluent kids for a couple of years in high school.

At which point after spending the past decade with their own socioeconomic piers and clicking up when they do finally mix with the east county kids I suspect it will be harder than it already is for them. Seems waste to spend the extra money just for high school.

Yes it will be the BCC cluster but the kids will only see the true Bethesda/Chevy Chase kids for a few years at the end of their schooling.

I have a feeling you have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. Do you even live in the cluster?

Are you referencing Rock Creek Forest? I think the poster is saying instead of RCF going to Westland, they will split off and be mixed in with NCC and CCES in middle school which will be more middle class than Westland? Then they will only experience "high wealth and expectations" at BCC?

[Anonymous]

This is crazy. Chevy Chase and North Chevy Chase are extremely desirable (and expensive) neighborhoods. Do people in Somerset really look down on the neighborhoods in Chevy Chase?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. Chevy Chase and North Chevy Chase are extremely desirable (and expensive) neighborhoods. Do people in Somerset really look down on the neighborhoods in Chevy Chase?

Yeah, I have no idea what that poster is saying, I think they have no idea that there are no "eastern" schools in BCC and that the kids from Silver Spring in BCC district are already mixed in with the kids from NCC and CC and that is not likely to change any time soon. Also, believe it or not! there are some wealthy and lots of highly educated families at RCF.

[Anonymous]

People live in Chevy Chase, MD and are zoned for RCF because it is very close to very nice Chevy Chase neighborhoods. There are really people on this website who don't know what they are talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People live in Chevy Chase, MD and are zoned for RCF because it is very close to very nice Chevy Chase neighborhoods. There are really people on this website who don't know what they are talking about.

People said RCF is a decent middle class are but it is really only Chevy Chase by name only, even you admit it is close to but not the really nice neighborhoods which means it isn't the nice places people think about. The point was that is was most likely going to go to Westland as it gave the impression of compromise while leaving the two schools east in the new middle. I will bet a all the money in the world that Westland finally gets rids of RMH

And Yes kids at BCC make fun of the kids who live further east.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This survey is "sponsored by the NAACP Parents' Council". It says so right there in the document. Do they have an agenda? Of course they do. That is their purpose.
The "agenda" is getting a variety of viewpoints about the issue, instead of relying solely on the approximately 20 parents who will make up the official boundary committee and to try to find a way to keep both schools diverse, equitable.

However,

1. Split articulation (as the survey itself explains) is not splitting kids up in the elementary schools. It's having one elementary school feed into two middle schools (or one middle school feed into two high schools).
2. If you think that proximity is the most important thing, the survey allows you to say so.
3. In general, I think that the survey gives you plenty of opportunities to state your opinions.

+1

[Anonymous]

Don't forget "split articulation" for this could mean 1/2 of Somerset kids come to the new middle school, not just that 1/2 of RCF kids goes to Westland

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is they dipped the diversity ladle very strategically along east-west and which ever school that gets the pocket closet to 16th st is going to get all the "diversity". Mark my words, they will end up sending RCF with it's token middle class diversity to Westland and the rest will go to #2. That way they can show effort, claim compromise and keep the poorest east for as long as possible. Are we talking bets?

I think you might be right about RCF. I also think it will probably stay at Westland due to the immersion program being there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People live in Chevy Chase, MD and are zoned for RCF because it is very close to very nice Chevy Chase neighborhoods. There are really people on this website who don't know what they are talking about.

People said RCF is a decent middle class are but it is really only Chevy Chase by name only, even you admit it is close to but not the really nice neighborhoods which means it isn't the nice places people think about. The point was that is was most likely going to go to Westland as it gave the impression of compromise while leaving the two schools east in the new middle. I will bet a all the money in the world that Westland finally gets rids of RMH

And Yes kids at BCC make fun of the kids who live further east.

That's disgusting. Truly, money doesn't buy compassion or class.

[Anonymous]

With all the cuts in busing, wouldn't they want to send the kids closest to the new MS to that school? If it was in the 70's that MoCty made concerted efforts to add more diversity to BCC, then can we thank that move for making BCC what it is today, a school on par with the so-called "W" schools? Back in the 70's BCC did not have the great reputation it does today...

[Anonymous]

I highly doubt BCC kids are "making fun" of kids from the east side of the cluster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will the point of paying premium money for that part of Silver Spring if you end up not really being in the BCC cluster except for High School.

Why would the new middle school be less "in the BCC cluster" than Westland?



INHO I think they are saying: If the B-CC middle school number #2 has a higher rate of FARMS and consequently less advanced classes, then the kids may end up coming to B-CC less prepared than Westland students and before long you have 2 very unequal schools feeding into B-CC.