New chevy chase middle school

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Anonymous wrote:The PTA for the elementary schools in the mini-cluster used to have a pin that said "OPC" - it stood for "Other People's Children" as in we care not just for our kids but for all the kids at our schools. So, OP - look at the statistics and have a little conversation about what you want for your child - not with dcurbanmom community - but your spouse and family. If you value the experience of sending your child to a highly successful school that is also diverse, then purchase a home that will probably be in the boundary for the new middle school. If, you are for whatever reason not comfortable with socio-economic and racial diversity (in elementary school or middle school) then just don't buy in the downcounty area.

If it's a new school, how can it already be highly successful?

The fact that you'd call a school that hasn't even opened yet a success tells me pretty strongly that you're just pontificating based on your own views of social justice. As long as a school has the right SES and racial diversity for you, it's a guaranteed success. No thanks. There's enough of that mindset in MCPS already.

Don't be so literal. The existing cluster, the BCC cluster, is successful. I think you're the one who's pontificating.

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Hello - I am coming into this conversation more than a year late! I am thinking of moving to Montgomery Country from DC but I have been away from the area for a few years - so, please tell me what is the new middle school called and where is it? Is it open? Any updated comments about it? And is the old Carderock Springs Elementary on Radnor Road closed?? I googled it and was taken to a Carderock Springs different location ...???

thanks, allison

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It has been planned but is far off -- scheduled to open August 2017.

Here is more info: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/meetings/agenda/2011-12/2012-0417/3.0%20Site%20Selection%20for%20B-CC%20MS%202.pdf

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Radnor is a holding location for schools under renovation. The CS kids were bussed there while their school was being rebuilt. Now that it's complete, Carderock Springs Elementary is back on its old site in the Carderock neighborhood of Bethesda (near Avenel).

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the current plan for the middle school, both of which would pull lots of kids from lower income parts of Silver Spring and Kensington.

OK, please. I have a child at RHPS. The parts of Kensington that are in the RHPS/NCCES configuration currently are Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View. They are by no stretch of the imagination "lower income" and are arguably the nicest areas in Kensington and are nicer neighborhoods than many in Bethesda. The parts of Silver Spring are the neighborhood immediately surrounding Rosemary Hills, where every house costs more than $450K, and a few nearby apartment complexes where I assume incomes are lower. It's true that there will be a boundary study and the outcome is uncertain at this point, but there is no proposal to move wide swaths of other parts of Silver Spring and Kensington into the already overcrowded B-CC cluster. The kids that OP is complaining about are already at RHPS, which is a fantastic school with an incredibly dedicated staff and involved parent community.

Yeah, Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View are real low income neighborhoods - NOT. Most of my neighbors are either lawyers, doctors, research scientists or economists. I don't think the OP would like her kids going to school with the likes of our kids. The people who moved to these neighborhoods appreciate large lot sizes, the proximity to the Beltway, downtown and several Metro stations, the BCC cluster and yes, diversity. Therefore I don't think you'd like living in the part of Kensington (Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View) served by the BCC cluster.

I too live in lowly slummy Kensington, and not even the nice part. Our neighborhood is diverse, and chock-a-block with teachers, Fed employees, Fed lawyers, artists, and writers, etc. Wouldn't trade it for the world. I suggest you move out of ChCh if you don't want to associate with anyone from SS or Kensington.

Can you let me know what the slummy (ha ha) neighborhoods are in Kensington - sounds like something we would like to consider. I would love to have artists and writers and diversity if my neighborhood and I'm a fed so not huge income. Thanks.

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the current plan for the middle school, both of which would pull lots of kids from lower income parts of Silver Spring and Kensington.

OK, please. I have a child at RHPS. The parts of Kensington that are in the RHPS/NCCES configuration currently are Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View. They are by no stretch of the imagination "lower income" and are arguably the nicest areas in Kensington and are nicer neighborhoods than many in Bethesda. The parts of Silver Spring are the neighborhood immediately surrounding Rosemary Hills, where every house costs more than $450K, and a few nearby apartment complexes where I assume incomes are lower. It's true that there will be a boundary study and the outcome is uncertain at this point, but there is no proposal to move wide swaths of other parts of Silver Spring and Kensington into the already overcrowded B-CC cluster. The kids that OP is complaining about are already at RHPS, which is a fantastic school with an incredibly dedicated staff and involved parent community.

Yeah, Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View are real low income neighborhoods - NOT. Most of my neighbors are either lawyers, doctors, research scientists or economists. I don't think the OP would like her kids going to school with the likes of our kids. The people who moved to these neighborhoods appreciate large lot sizes, the proximity to the Beltway, downtown and several Metro stations, the BCC cluster and yes, diversity. Therefore I don't think you'd like living in the part of Kensington (Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View) served by the BCC cluster.

I too live in lowly slummy Kensington, and not even the nice part. Our neighborhood is diverse, and chock-a-block with teachers, Fed employees, Fed lawyers, artists, and writers, etc. Wouldn't trade it for the world. I suggest you move out of ChCh if you don't want to associate with anyone from SS or Kensington.

Can you let me know what the slummy (ha ha) neighborhoods are in Kensington - sounds like something we would like to consider. I would love to have artists and writers and diversity if my neighborhood and I'm a fed so not huge income. Thanks.

oh forget previous comment - just realized this is an old thread that has been revived. oops

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the current plan for the middle school, both of which would pull lots of kids from lower income parts of Silver Spring and Kensington.

OK, please. I have a child at RHPS. The parts of Kensington that are in the RHPS/NCCES configuration currently are Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View. They are by no stretch of the imagination "lower income" and are arguably the nicest areas in Kensington and are nicer neighborhoods than many in Bethesda. The parts of Silver Spring are the neighborhood immediately surrounding Rosemary Hills, where every house costs more than $450K, and a few nearby apartment complexes where I assume incomes are lower. It's true that there will be a boundary study and the outcome is uncertain at this point, but there is no proposal to move wide swaths of other parts of Silver Spring and Kensington into the already overcrowded B-CC cluster. The kids that OP is complaining about are already at RHPS, which is a fantastic school with an incredibly dedicated staff and involved parent community.

Yeah, Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View are real low income neighborhoods - NOT. Most of my neighbors are either lawyers, doctors, research scientists or economists. I don't think the OP would like her kids going to school with the likes of our kids. The people who moved to these neighborhoods appreciate large lot sizes, the proximity to the Beltway, downtown and several Metro stations, the BCC cluster and yes, diversity. Therefore I don't think you'd like living in the part of Kensington (Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View) served by the BCC cluster.

I too live in lowly slummy Kensington, and not even the nice part. Our neighborhood is diverse, and chock-a-block with teachers, Fed employees, Fed lawyers, artists, and writers, etc. Wouldn't trade it for the world. I suggest you move out of ChCh if you don't want to associate with anyone from SS or Kensington.

Can you let me know what the slummy (ha ha) neighborhoods are in Kensington - sounds like something we would like to consider. I would love to have artists and writers and diversity if my neighborhood and I'm a fed so not huge income. Thanks.

Near Oakland Terrace and Rock View elementary schools. THese areas area also less expensive. You may also want to try the area near the new (and gorgeous) Flora M. Singer leementary (noty far from Forest Glen metro,)

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Near Oakland Terrace and Rock View elementary schools. THese areas area also less expensive. You may also want to try the area near the new (and gorgeous) Flora M. Singer leementary (noty far from Forest Glen metro,)

I second all of those suggestions. Our area near Oakland Terrace is also easily walkable to MARC, "downtown" Kensington, and about 4 parks.

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My kid is going to go to RH and the middle school. As if I wasn't displeased enough with the racist experiment known as RH. Time and time again, court decisions from the Supreme Court on down have dictated that school admissions be color blind, yet the County has commonly bragged about how they assign little children from wide and far to attend RH simply for reasons of skin color or whether they get free and reduced meals. For example, my kid has 5 elementary schools closer to our house in Bethesda than RH (some of them half as far) yet she is forced to double her commutes by going to RH so that she can accommodate this experiment.

It'll be interesting to see how disparate impact measures taken on by the state board of education are implemented at RH and the new middle school. Disparate impact means that public school administrators in Maryland are being forced to take an assailants race into consideration (in other words racism) when determining how to punish them.

It's just gets uglier and uglier.

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PP, you should have been aware of your neighborhood's articulation pattern when you moved there. If you find this so offensive, why did you choose your neighborhood.

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Isn't it about property values?

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Call me when those high MoCo FARM and ESOL schools stop having to put up every sign in Spanish. Then I'll know the tax dollars and social experiment was a success.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to go to RH and the middle school. As if I wasn't displeased enough with the racist experiment known as RH. Time and time again, court decisions from the Supreme Court on down have dictated that school admissions be color blind, yet the County has commonly bragged about how they assign little children from wide and far to attend RH simply for reasons of skin color or whether they get free and reduced meals. For example, my kid has 5 elementary schools closer to our house in Bethesda than RH (some of them half as far) yet she is forced to double her commutes by going to RH so that she can accommodate this experiment.

It'll be interesting to see how disparate impact measures taken on by the state board of education are implemented at RH and the new middle school. Disparate impact means that public school administrators in Maryland are being forced to take an assailants race into consideration (in other words racism) when determining how to punish them.

It's just gets uglier and uglier.

I'll quibble with this to say that taking race into account is not the same as racism, which is a belief that some races are inherently superior to others. I can't see how busing children to RH to achieve some kind of balance has anything to do with believing one race is superior to others.

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Pay no attention to the pp complaining about bis times to RHPS. She has been ranting on this board for a year or two at least, although my impression was she was refusing to send her children there so perhaps she is softening. Loads of us inBethesda and CC MD send our children to RHPS and are big fans of the school. Personally I worry less Bout the short rides to RHPS and more about the long rides to Westland. Which is why I'm a big fan of the new middle school.

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Anonymous wrote:Pay no attention to the pp complaining about bis times to RHPS. She has been ranting on this board for a year or two at least, although my impression was she was refusing to send her children there so perhaps she is softening. Loads of us inBethesda and CC MD send our children to RHPS and are big fans of the school.

Words truly spoken by someone who most likely is NOT "inBethesda and CC MD."

Anonymous wrote:Personally I worry less Bout the short rides to RHPS and more about the long rides to Westland. Which is why I'm a big fan of the new middle school.

Why not have both - why not just NOT be racist, send your kid to an elementary school in your own community (1 of up to 5 closer schools in our case), and then ALSO send them to the new middle school which will be closer than Westland? Something stinks with the inconsistencies in what you say vs what you do, and that would make most people feel really sorry for the future of your children.


By the way, even if RH is "short" for you (which I doubt, if your first statement is true), but for some families (such as mine), you're looking at 3000 extra commuting miles (not to mention wasted time and unnecessary exposure to risk in varying road and traffic conditions) over the course of K-2. If you still like that for your children, that's your twisted business, but why support hoisting that situation up on all the other families in the community? Because there's something wrong with you, that's why.