Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

But is that bussing limited to that small area? What option 3 is proposing seems far more extensive in terms of the number of kids getting bussed across county.

No, it’s 4 miles away. Not a small area. Kids pass by two elementary schools to get to their elementary school. Many of the option 3 schools now would travel far fewer miles.

And many would travel more.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

For those who don’t know. Also want to add that for Chevy Chase kids CCES is a short walk from both sides of Connecticut where there is a crossing guard. Once they get to CCES from RH, they all walk. Same for Rosemary Hills neighborhood and the vast majority of the Silver Spring kids, Rosemary Hills is walkable. Both schools literally in the backyards of their students respective neighborhoods. Neighborhood schools were not prioritized. And this was in 1983 before DEI. Didn’t matter. Now the entire county will get the same treatment. As a result most of Chevy Chase families send their kids to private schools. Very Good chance of Option 3 happening. There is precedent.

Doubt it.

Live in denial then at your own peril. The families don’t even have a leg on to sue MCPS or the county. The Rosemary Hills situation is the model.

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Options 2 and 4 seem the least insane.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

For those who don’t know. Also want to add that for Chevy Chase kids CCES is a short walk from both sides of Connecticut where there is a crossing guard. Once they get to CCES from RH, they all walk. Same for Rosemary Hills neighborhood and the vast majority of the Silver Spring kids, Rosemary Hills is walkable. Both schools literally in the backyards of their students respective neighborhoods. Neighborhood schools were not prioritized. And this was in 1983 before DEI. Didn’t matter. Now the entire county will get the same treatment. As a result most of Chevy Chase families send their kids to private schools. Very Good chance of Option 3 happening. There is precedent.

Doubt it.

Live in denial then at your own peril. The families don’t even have a leg on to sue MCPS or the county. The Rosemary Hills situation is the model.

As a single mom I’d just have to move.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

Your attitude seems to be “MCPS did this bad thing to Rosemary Hills and therefore will do it to everyone.” I’m confused by your fatalism. Is it an echo of the Covid years?

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

For those who don’t know. Also want to add that for Chevy Chase kids CCES is a short walk from both sides of Connecticut where there is a crossing guard. Once they get to CCES from RH, they all walk. Same for Rosemary Hills neighborhood and the vast majority of the Silver Spring kids, Rosemary Hills is walkable. Both schools literally in the backyards of their students respective neighborhoods. Neighborhood schools were not prioritized. And this was in 1983 before DEI. Didn’t matter. Now the entire county will get the same treatment. As a result most of Chevy Chase families send their kids to private schools. Very Good chance of Option 3 happening. There is precedent.

Doubt it.

Live in denial then at your own peril. The families don’t even have a leg on to sue MCPS or the county. The Rosemary Hills situation is the model.

The playing field may have changed PP, with the 2023 Supreme Court DEI cases and all. Plus just read the news. It gets worse every day on this.

Now will MCPS adopt option 3 or something like it anyways? Of course! I agree that no one should be in denial over that.

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Anonymous wrote:Option 3 is def. an option you morons. The scores are too low in a bunch of schools and MCPS is all about optics. The kids bussed in will raise those scores which will make the school look good

You’re the moron. The kids who would raise those test scores will never get bussed in because their parents will send them private or move into the new boundary for their old school. And I’m speaking as a parent who would do just that.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

I live in Rosemary Hills. There's no part of the CCES area that takes 45 minutes to get to RHPS. Maybe on a very rare occasion if there was an accident somewhere on the way, but not as the norm. And it's a very small slice of the Silver Spring kids who get bused to CCES, the poorest kids from a particular apartment complex, who are bused just to make wealthy CCES families feel better that there's diversity at their school. The rest go to NCC like my kids did. Stop being such a martyr.

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?

I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values.
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I don’t think that’s right. You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago. Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t. If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact. But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward. Never more disappointed in MCPS.

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it. It makes no sense.

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.

Or, with all due respect, you are in denial about MCPS and the Board and their intentions. There was a time when this was exactly what they wanted. We’ll see what the current board says/does.

The board needs to read the room about DEI. There is a lot of appetite for DEI-based lawsuits right now and I can imagine the federal government trying to get involved.

I hope they don’t want to be the new test case for interpretations of what is permitted for DEI.

We can’t be Harvard here. They just spent a bunch of money on the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court that, tbh, for all the good intentions we don’t stand a snow balls chance in you know where of winning. That’s our taxpayer dollars that could be better spent on things like … providing additional resources to Kennedy students.

As long as they don't explicitly use race as a tie-breaker or actively seek segregation, both SCOTUS precedent and other case law gives wide latitude to school districts to draw their own boundaries.

In fact, when the upcounty boundary folks tried to sue, they were forced to do so on the basis of an improper meeting.

Basically, I don't think the legal avenues would work out here, assuming MCPS does its due diligence in terms of public consultation.

😂😂😂. Good one.

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?

I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values.
- agent

I don’t think that’s right. You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago. Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t. If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact. But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward. Never more disappointed in MCPS.

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it. It makes no sense.

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.

Or, with all due respect, you are in denial about MCPS and the Board and their intentions. There was a time when this was exactly what they wanted. We’ll see what the current board says/does.

The board needs to read the room about DEI. There is a lot of appetite for DEI-based lawsuits right now and I can imagine the federal government trying to get involved.

I hope they don’t want to be the new test case for interpretations of what is permitted for DEI.

We can’t be Harvard here. They just spent a bunch of money on the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court that, tbh, for all the good intentions we don’t stand a snow balls chance in you know where of winning. That’s our taxpayer dollars that could be better spent on things like … providing additional resources to Kennedy students.

As long as they don't explicitly use race as a tie-breaker or actively seek segregation, both SCOTUS precedent and other case law gives wide latitude to school districts to draw their own boundaries.

In fact, when the upcounty boundary folks tried to sue, they were forced to do so on the basis of an improper meeting.

Basically, I don't think the legal avenues would work out here, assuming MCPS does its due diligence in terms of public consultation.

You might be correct, but the current SCOTUS is more hostile to DEI efforts, so I could see it going either way.

But the BOE would pull this option rather than get tangled up in years long litigation that would delay the boundaries happening

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

Your attitude seems to be “MCPS did this bad thing to Rosemary Hills and therefore will do it to everyone.” I’m confused by your fatalism. Is it an echo of the Covid years?

No, honestly, it’s just reality. Its been done already with CCES/RHPS. And guess what? Decades later, familes just accept it while privately complaining about it. Except for the vast majority of Chevy Chase families who opt for private. MCPS is playing the long game. They are betting this bussing scheme will eventually become accepted. But really affluent families will just go private or move to Nova and take their tax dollars with them rather than suffer. MCPS is in denial there is a pain point to this because schools are already overcrowded though mainly with high FARMs kids so maybe they’ll view the flight as a good thing? It’s also being done in New York. Option 3 is definitely a reality. So don’t be shocked.

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?

I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values.
- agent

I don’t think that’s right. You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago. Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t. If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact. But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward. Never more disappointed in MCPS.

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it. It makes no sense.

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.

Or, with all due respect, you are in denial about MCPS and the Board and their intentions. There was a time when this was exactly what they wanted. We’ll see what the current board says/does.

The board needs to read the room about DEI. There is a lot of appetite for DEI-based lawsuits right now and I can imagine the federal government trying to get involved.

I hope they don’t want to be the new test case for interpretations of what is permitted for DEI.

We can’t be Harvard here. They just spent a bunch of money on the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court that, tbh, for all the good intentions we don’t stand a snow balls chance in you know where of winning. That’s our taxpayer dollars that could be better spent on things like … providing additional resources to Kennedy students.

As long as they don't explicitly use race as a tie-breaker or actively seek segregation, both SCOTUS precedent and other case law gives wide latitude to school districts to draw their own boundaries.

In fact, when the upcounty boundary folks tried to sue, they were forced to do so on the basis of an improper meeting.

Basically, I don't think the legal avenues would work out here, assuming MCPS does its due diligence in terms of public consultation.

You might be correct, but the current SCOTUS is more hostile to DEI efforts, so I could see it going either way.

But the BOE would pull this option rather than get tangled up in years long litigation that would delay the boundaries happening

Maybe, but in addition to assuming the BOE’s actions, you are assuming the Fourth Circuit (a relatively liberal circuit) would grant a preliminary injunction. With all of the things going on nationally, I don’t think the Supreme Court would likely intervene through the shadow docket.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

I live in Rosemary Hills. There's no part of the CCES area that takes 45 minutes to get to RHPS. Maybe on a very rare occasion if there was an accident somewhere on the way, but not as the norm. And it's a very small slice of the Silver Spring kids who get bused to CCES, the poorest kids from a particular apartment complex, who are bused just to make wealthy CCES families feel better that there's diversity at their school. The rest go to NCC like my kids did. Stop being such a martyr.

The buses stop multiple times at multiple bus stops along the way. It isn’t a straight shot. You aren’t taking that into account. By the time they get they get to the last stop in Chevy Chase, it’s been 45 minutes! Obviously you didn’t live this but I DID!!!!

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What’s annoying is that MCPS has been saying for years “no, no we aren’t going to do anything like cross county busing. We’ll keep boundaries contiguous and add diversity around the borders.”

Then we have option 3.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s annoying is that MCPS has been saying for years “no, no we aren’t going to do anything like cross county busing. We’ll keep boundaries contiguous and add diversity around the borders.”

Then we have option 3.

So beyond the survey, how do we express ourselves?