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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I will admit that I am highly HIGHLY dubious about your claim that you are merely a concerned bystander from another elementary school.  I strongly suspect you of being a Spanish immersion parent at RCFES.  If you are the parent of a SI student, I think your decision to post here anonymously posing as a parent from outside the school is unethical.  Here are some questions for you: If it's important to you to get involved in RCF politics, why don't you contact the PTA directly and ask them what their membership thinks?  If you can get Spanish immersion education at SSIMS, then why do you feel you are shortchanged if your child does not matriculate to Westland?  If it's important to you that your child goes to Westland, why not just buy a house in the BCC cluster?

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I can only say that I am what I claim -- a parent who lives in area neighboring RCF in the BCC cluster.  I value diversity in the democratic process and think that everyone in the cluster should know what the Superintendent and the BoE are doing and should have a voice in it.

I did not attend the BCC Cluster Roundtable (only a few select representatives from each school could), but I followed the discussion as presented by our reps.  The discussion materials are headed only with the names of BES, CCES, NCCES and RHPS and Westland.  Representation is described in these documents as "3 representatives from each of the 5 schools."  This language leads me to believe that RCF representatives did not have a seat at the roundtable discussions that recommended building a new middle school.  I think they should have (as well as Somerset and Westbrook parents, BTW, but at least Somerset and Westbrook are not likely to be affected in their school placement for middle school due to their physical location.  RCF is.)  In addition, at least one person commented about the lack of RCF representation in the decision making process during the recent BoE meetings (sorry I can't provide an exact cite for this, but the meetings can be viewed via webcast on the BoE site.)  Not only should all cluster schools have a voice in the process of deciding to build a new middle school, but they all should be involved in the process of drawing new boundaries for this middle school.

I can't address your Q's because they assume that I am a SI/RCF parent, which I am not.   Although I will say that I did not contact RCF PTA directly because I wanted to hear from parents with various opinions, not just PTA officials voicing the end-state compromises among various points of view.  I imagine at RCF, like at our school, parents have different opinions about the merits of the various solutions before the BoE.   Plus, I was curious to hear today, since the BoE meets tonight on this issue.  I would never expect an individual to reply to me so immediately, but I can be pretty sure to get an answer via DCUM pretty quickly.

BTW, calling troll is not really responsive to the issues at hand.  Sort of like criticizing someone's looks instead of the merits of their concerns, if you know what I mean.....
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