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[quote=Anonymous]The people in RCH were/are in a tizzy because they don't want a school in their midst. I don't claim to really understand it, but from what I've gathered in watching this process, I don't think it's so much a class/SES issue as it is an infrastructure issue. RCH is just over the boundary from CC/Bethesda but it is much more suburban in its feel - house lots tend to be larger, roads are not heavily travelled. And of course the prices are lower but they still get to go to CC/Bethesda schools. Now they're going to have to live with a little bit of what all the rest of us in this area live with: the inconveniences that go along with being in a heavily developed, close-in neighborhood. There also seems to be an older population which is pretty insular - more so in other nearby areas because all the other neighborhoods have already had to deal with development. Overall, Kensington is going through a lot of changes, and I can understand why that is unsettling and why the residents want to ensure they're not steamrolled. On the other hand, I think some of those who have fought this school really gave the neighborhood a black eye by taking such a hard line against a community asset ... to listen to some of the RCH advocates, you might have thought the County wanted to site a super maxx prison in their midst.

All that said, there are those who have opposed the new middle school because they allege it will create a double-standard of race and SES in the BCC district, which historically has had more balance than say Whitman or Churchill. Personally I'm not convinced by this for a lot of reasons, but I didn't hear this as the main objection of the RCH crowd - although they sometimes used this argument when they were trying to throw every possible objection at the wall in hopes that something would stick.[/quote]

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