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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was not able to attend, but found this report on the meeting to be helpful:
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/County-School-System-Begins-Boundary-Drawing-Process-for-New-Bethesda-Chevy-Chase-Middle-School/

I'm calling it....

Westbrook, Somerset and CC + Rosemary hills -> Westland
NCC, Bethesda and RCF -> BCC MS

I don't think they'll be sending anyone directly from 2d grade to Westland!

The guess includes a split articulation for the Rosemary Hill area to appease.

[Anonymous]

They also are not going to split up NCC and CC, the kids go to RHPS and then get split in 3rd, they are not going to do another split again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was not able to attend, but found this report on the meeting to be helpful:
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/County-School-System-Begins-Boundary-Drawing-Process-for-New-Bethesda-Chevy-Chase-Middle-School/

I'm calling it....

Westbrook, Somerset and CC + Rosemary hills -> Westland
NCC, Bethesda and RCF -> BCC MS

Your “calling it” takes the children from three schools and “unpairs” them after they have been together and switched twice in their K-5 experience. It also undermines the desegregation plan that arose after tremendous controversy and now is a social success story, and it creates upwards of a 15-20% difference in white populations between the two schools. To achieve this dubious result, kids in the school furthest from Westland would have to endure the longest commute across the cluster. Using that logic, Westbrook could be sent north to the new school with Rosemary Hills, Rock Creek Forest, and the northern half of Chevy Chase.

I’m struggling to understand why your call isn’t anything more than wishful thinking motivated by something other than the best interests of the students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was not able to attend, but found this report on the meeting to be helpful:
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/County-School-System-Begins-Boundary-Drawing-Process-for-New-Bethesda-Chevy-Chase-Middle-School/

I'm calling it....

Westbrook, Somerset and CC + Rosemary hills -> Westland
NCC, Bethesda and RCF -> BCC MS

Your “calling it” takes the children from three schools and “unpairs” them after they have been together and switched twice in their K-5 experience. It also undermines the desegregation plan that arose after tremendous controversy and now is a social success story, and it creates upwards of a 15-20% difference in white populations between the two schools. To achieve this dubious result, kids in the school furthest from Westland would have to endure the longest commute across the cluster. Using that logic, Westbrook could be sent north to the new school with Rosemary Hills, Rock Creek Forest, and the northern half of Chevy Chase.

I’m struggling to understand why your call isn’t anything more than wishful thinking motivated by something other than the best interests of the students.

Don't understand why your are getting upset by someone who came up with an idiotic plan? Do you think that taking the children who live closest to RHPS and splitting them from NCC and shipping them out is going to occur is a serious call?

It would make the most sense to send RCF to Westland to balance the socioeconomic diversity.

They are on the fringe of the boundary as it is, and there has been talk of moving them out of BCC for years because of the overcrowding. They only were able to go to Westland for the emersion program, which will not be at the new middle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was not able to attend, but found this report on the meeting to be helpful:
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/County-School-System-Begins-Boundary-Drawing-Process-for-New-Bethesda-Chevy-Chase-Middle-School/

I'm calling it....

Westbrook, Somerset and CC + Rosemary hills -> Westland
NCC, Bethesda and RCF -> BCC MS

Your “calling it” takes the children from three schools and “unpairs” them after they have been together and switched twice in their K-5 experience. It also undermines the desegregation plan that arose after tremendous controversy and now is a social success story, and it creates upwards of a 15-20% difference in white populations between the two schools. To achieve this dubious result, kids in the school furthest from Westland would have to endure the longest commute across the cluster. Using that logic, Westbrook could be sent north to the new school with Rosemary Hills, Rock Creek Forest, and the northern half of Chevy Chase.

I’m struggling to understand why your call isn’t anything more than wishful thinking motivated by something other than the best interests of the students.

Don't understand why your are getting upset by someone who came up with an idiotic plan? Do you think that taking the children who live closest to RHPS and splitting them from NCC and shipping them out is going to occur is a serious call?

It would make the most sense to send RCF to Westland to balance the socioeconomic diversity.

They are on the fringe of the boundary as it is, and there has been talk of moving them out of BCC for years because of the overcrowding. They only were able to go to Westland for the emersion program, which will not be at the new middle.

They can move the Immersion program. Westland is too far... Chevy chase needs to go there.

[Anonymous]

It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

Whether it does or it doesn't make sense, it's not happening. So focusing on it is a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

Whether it does or it doesn't make sense, it's not happening. So focusing on it is a waste of time.

Indeed. The link above says specifically that no change like that will be made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

Whether it does or it doesn't make sense, it's not happening. So focusing on it is a waste of time.

Indeed. The link above says specifically that no change like that will be made.

That's the thing... The link and slides say no school boundaries will change. It also asks "what to do with the Rosemary Hills kids?" I'm not sure why it says that but it does. NCC is obviously going to the new BCC MS, so to even ask what to do when the school is split into NCC and CC is weird. The only way to do anything is to unbind it to these schools in some way. The question also hints at some possible issue with going to the new BCC MS when that's the most obvious choice based on location. So will special interests push for it to go to Westland and create some alternate path than the obvious? Its certainly a possibility.

[Anonymous]

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That's the thing... The link and slides say no school boundaries will change. It also asks "what to do with the Rosemary Hills kids?" I'm not sure why it says that but it does. NCC is obviously going to the new BCC MS, so to even ask what to do when the school is split into NCC and CC is weird. The only way to do anything is to unbind it to these schools in some way. The question also hints at some possible issue with going to the new BCC MS when that's the most obvious choice based on location. So will special interests push for it to go to Westland and create some alternate path than the obvious? Its certainly a possibility.

..."special interests"...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

why does it make sense? RCF is 2.7 miles from B-CC, Westbrook is 3.3 miles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

Whether it does or it doesn't make sense, it's not happening. So focusing on it is a waste of time.

Indeed. The link above says specifically that no change like that will be made.

That's the thing... The link and slides say no school boundaries will change. It also asks "what to do with the Rosemary Hills kids?" I'm not sure why it says that but it does. NCC is obviously going to the new BCC MS, so to even ask what to do when the school is split into NCC and CC is weird. The only way to do anything is to unbind it to these schools in some way. The question also hints at some possible issue with going to the new BCC MS when that's the most obvious choice based on location. So will special interests push for it to go to Westland and create some alternate path than the obvious? Its certainly a possibility.

I've heard some chatter from neighbors that it's possible Rosemary Hills could go from a K-2 primary school to a K-5 elementary school at some point in the future. I think it used to be called Rosemary Hills Primary School and is now Rosemary Hills Elementary School, and the slides do reference a significant re-do of the facilities in the not-too-distant future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

why does it make sense? RCF is 2.7 miles from B-CC, Westbrook is 3.3 miles.

Presumably because PP's house is not zoned for Rock Creek Forest ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

why does it make sense? RCF is 2.7 miles from B-CC, Westbrook is 3.3 miles.

Presumably because PP's house is not zoned for Rock Creek Forest ES.

Exactly.... PP's wants RCF to both lose the Immersion program and relocate to a different cluster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does not make sense to move the immersion program from Westland to the new middle school. It does make sense to remove RCF from BCC to ease overcrowding at the high school level.

why does it make sense? RCF is 2.7 miles from B-CC, Westbrook is 3.3 miles.

Presumably because PP's house is not zoned for Rock Creek Forest ES.

Exactly.... PP's wants RCF to both lose the Immersion program and relocate to a different cluster.

Yup, that's exactly what she wants. Nevermind that RCF has been in the BCC cluster since it opened over 40 years ago, even before the immersion program was housed there. PP obviously has her panties in a twist about the FARMS kids - I would be she is the one who has been alluding to this throughout this thread (e.g. the comments about how RCF and RH should go to the DCC schools since that's where they naturally fit in as opposed to with the rich white kids at Westland/BCC).