Beware quince orchard Parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not a troll, I received a letter too. Many of the other moms did as well but I don't know if it is only white parents because our neighborhood is all white. The letter wasn't even racist OP is being overly sensitive. The letter just said it is unfair that blacks can be proud that they beat white people in a competition and that if whites say it then it would be racist. Yes it is true but that is just where our society is now. Anyway, the letter is completely real, but I don't know if minority parents got it as well. QO has had a few racial incidents in the past but it is still a great school.

I'd love to see the letter, but long experience has taught me that white folks will not see racism unless 12 men in sheets turn up in the front lawn with a burning cross and a rope.

If this (white) parent is calling Black kids out by name, and accusing a Black administrator of favoring kids of color, and the only reason for that is race - then the letter is racist.

Perhaps if you live in TN, but not true in this area. The QO community is a very nice, accepting one overall.

[Anonymous]

The Ridgeview parents are just angry because their elementary schools have forced diversity. Have you ever been in the Jones Lane or Thurgood Marshall neighborhood? You will see they aren't very diverse or have any lower-class housing. The schools are diverse because the county brings kids from outside the boundary into the school to bring up the FARMS rate. I know this since my kids are in high school and college now and I went to the meetings long ago when they started bringing in Gaithersburg kids to make the FARMS rate higher. The same happens at Thurgood Marshall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Ridgeview parents are just angry because their elementary schools have forced diversity. Have you ever been in the Jones Lane or Thurgood Marshall neighborhood? You will see they aren't very diverse or have any lower-class housing. The schools are diverse because the county brings kids from outside the boundary into the school to bring up the FARMS rate. I know this since my kids are in high school and college now and I went to the meetings long ago when they started bringing in Gaithersburg kids to make the FARMS rate higher. The same happens at Thurgood Marshall.

Yeah - I don't think so....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Ridgeview parents are just angry because their elementary schools have forced diversity. Have you ever been in the Jones Lane or Thurgood Marshall neighborhood? You will see they aren't very diverse or have any lower-class housing. The schools are diverse because the county brings kids from outside the boundary into the school to bring up the FARMS rate. I know this since my kids are in high school and college now and I went to the meetings long ago when they started bringing in Gaithersburg kids to make the FARMS rate higher. The same happens at Thurgood Marshall.

Can we please stop making “Gaithersburg” synonymous with poor, uneducated, unwashed masses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ridgeview parents are just angry because their elementary schools have forced diversity. Have you ever been in the Jones Lane or Thurgood Marshall neighborhood? You will see they aren't very diverse or have any lower-class housing. The schools are diverse because the county brings kids from outside the boundary into the school to bring up the FARMS rate. I know this since my kids are in high school and college now and I went to the meetings long ago when they started bringing in Gaithersburg kids to make the FARMS rate higher. The same happens at Thurgood Marshall.

Yeah - I don't think so....

Not PP but parent at RCES, I have heard this from parents. You can look at both schools service maps and see that the county busses kids some almost 20 min away to make there more FARMs at the schools. Otherwise, FARMs rates would be negligible.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/JonesLaneES.pdf

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/ThurgoodMarshallES.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ridgeview parents are just angry because their elementary schools have forced diversity. Have you ever been in the Jones Lane or Thurgood Marshall neighborhood? You will see they aren't very diverse or have any lower-class housing. The schools are diverse because the county brings kids from outside the boundary into the school to bring up the FARMS rate. I know this since my kids are in high school and college now and I went to the meetings long ago when they started bringing in Gaithersburg kids to make the FARMS rate higher. The same happens at Thurgood Marshall.

Yeah - I don't think so....

Not PP but parent at RCES, I have heard this from parents. You can look at both schools service maps and see that the county busses kids some almost 20 min away to make there more FARMs at the schools. Otherwise, FARMs rates would be negligible.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/JonesLaneES.pdf

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/ThurgoodMarshallES.pdf

They do it for RCES too. How do you think we have 20% FARMs in the Kentlands-Lakelands?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ridgeview parents are just angry because their elementary schools have forced diversity. Have you ever been in the Jones Lane or Thurgood Marshall neighborhood? You will see they aren't very diverse or have any lower-class housing. The schools are diverse because the county brings kids from outside the boundary into the school to bring up the FARMS rate. I know this since my kids are in high school and college now and I went to the meetings long ago when they started bringing in Gaithersburg kids to make the FARMS rate higher. The same happens at Thurgood Marshall.

Yeah - I don't think so....

Not PP but parent at RCES, I have heard this from parents. You can look at both schools service maps and see that the county busses kids some almost 20 min away to make there more FARMs at the schools. Otherwise, FARMs rates would be negligible.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/JonesLaneES.pdf

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/ThurgoodMarshallES.pdf

They do it for RCES too. How do you think we have 20% FARMs in the Kentlands-Lakelands?

Of course we don’t — the point is some RCES kids come from other parts of Gaithersburg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not a troll, I received a letter too. Many of the other moms did as well but I don't know if it is only white parents because our neighborhood is all white. The letter wasn't even racist OP is being overly sensitive. The letter just said it is unfair that blacks can be proud that they beat white people in a competition and that if whites say it then it would be racist. Yes it is true but that is just where our society is now. Anyway, the letter is completely real, but I don't know if minority parents got it as well. QO has had a few racial incidents in the past but it is still a great school.

I'd love to see the letter, but long experience has taught me that white folks will not see racism unless 12 men in sheets turn up in the front lawn with a burning cross and a rope.

If this (white) parent is calling Black kids out by name, and accusing a Black administrator of favoring kids of color, and the only reason for that is race - then the letter is racist.

Perhaps if you live in TN, but not true in this area. The QO community is a very nice, accepting one overall.

The point is that white people, whether they are nice and accepting or not, are very reluctant to see racism. They will twist themselves in knots to avoid naming racism as racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not a troll, I received a letter too. Many of the other moms did as well but I don't know if it is only white parents because our neighborhood is all white. The letter wasn't even racist OP is being overly sensitive. The letter just said it is unfair that blacks can be proud that they beat white people in a competition and that if whites say it then it would be racist. Yes it is true but that is just where our society is now. Anyway, the letter is completely real, but I don't know if minority parents got it as well. QO has had a few racial incidents in the past but it is still a great school.

I'd love to see the letter, but long experience has taught me that white folks will not see racism unless 12 men in sheets turn up in the front lawn with a burning cross and a rope.

If this (white) parent is calling Black kids out by name, and accusing a Black administrator of favoring kids of color, and the only reason for that is race - then the letter is racist.

Perhaps if you live in TN, but not true in this area. The QO community is a very nice, accepting one overall.

The point is that white people, whether they are nice and accepting or not, are very reluctant to see racism. They will twist themselves in knots to avoid naming racism as racism.

Yeah, no - get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Why would a school want to increase its FARMs rate?

[Anonymous]

Why would you want all FARMS kids concentrated in a handful of schools?

[Anonymous]

Rachel Carson kids also come from governor's square apartments and the orchards. Sorry to rain on your parade.

https://patch.com/maryland/gaithersburg/rachel-carson-elementary-school-named-maryland-blue-rb70ee4a49f

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would a school want to increase its FARMs rate?

The school and the community doesn't. The county screws them over so they can say how "diverse" all their schools are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a school want to increase its FARMs rate?

The school and the community doesn't. The county screws them over so they can say how "diverse" all their schools are.

The county does create school cluster. That would be the BOE, and their job is to make sure all kids are equally educated. It's not about screwing QO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a school want to increase its FARMs rate?

The school and the community doesn't. The county screws them over so they can say how "diverse" all their schools are.

The county does create school cluster. That would be the BOE, and their job is to make sure all kids are equally educated. It's not about screwing QO.

sorry.. meant to say "county DOESN'T create school cluster"...