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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry to jump into this discussion but I have a question. I attended the school board meeting 2 weeks ago and was present for the BCC cluster part. Several people, who I believe live near RH, got up and gave very impassioned (kinda even melodramatic) speeches about option 5 being a bad option. Not knowing much about this, I assume that option 5 is the one that takes all the East Betheda kids out of RH and sends them to BE. My question is why do the residents of RH neighborhood care so much? Why does it affect them? I was confused as to why this is such a contentious issue. I have no stake in this fight - not my schools just truly wondering. [/quote]

The problem is that these melodramatic Rosemary Hills parents of which you speak are guilty of the very thing over which they attempt to discredit East Bethesda parents.  That is to say that they are afraid of their children being buried in a sea of non-white and/or lesser privileged children.  So hang on for dear life to an agenda that lets them import East Bethesda kids to RH for the purpose of avoiding such an "atrocity."  You see, it's not that they want East Bethesda kids to go to school in a diverse environment; why should they care about that!  It's that they themselves don't want their own children buried in what they perceive will be a sea of minorities.  The irony here is that they point fingers at East Bethesda residents, calling out the cry of racism.

In reality, if you look closely, the irony here is that it's East Bethesda that wants schools drawn based on community lines (send kids to a school in their own community), and RH that wants school boundaries drawn based on 2 well-known proxys for race and class stratum (FARM and ESOL).  In fact, read the thread and you'll find not only numerous mention of these 2 proxies, but will overtly statements that illustrate their guiding metric (race).  Now tell me who is the racist?   The group that makes their decision based on geography, or the group that makes their decision based on race.   They aren't fooling anyone, however.[/quote]

You have hit the nail on the head. Thank you![/quote]

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