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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I like RHPS for the most part. My kids have made wonderful diverse friends but I would not say the school is even that diverse. It is actually disappointing it isn't more so for all the trouble we go through. Which makes it even more unfair that RHPS kids are bussed away from their neighborhoods during the K-2 years. Then the kids make friends and are torn away from them 3-6. I will be ticked if they don't pull together NCC and CCES for middle school so they can reunited. It will be insult to injury. [b]Bus Westbrook to the new middle and let them feel the bussing pain. I can walk to CCES from my house just like they can walk to Westland. Didn't stop Montco from bussing our kids. Let RCF be bussed to Westland so they can feel the pain too. Give the NCC CCES RHPS parents a break. We've paid our dues. [/b]
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My kids were friendly with kids that lived close to RHPS also but honestly they continued the friendships with kids who live closer to them, because it is easier to have playdates after school and on weekends.  It was the same for the kids that went to Rosemary Hills that lived in the apartments and neighborhoods close to the school.

I think there is a HUGE problem on this thread with people associating diversity in the school simply with race.  The diversity that is needed is [b]socioeconomic[/b], the FARMS rate is largely comprised of black and hispanic children, but not every child of color is below the poverty line.  The financially well off hispanic diplomat's child is not going to require the same degree of resources as the immigrant ESOL below the poverty line child.

My kids have lots friends who are are affluent children of color.  I don't really see much of a difference between any of them, except for a few cultural customs and sometimes food choices.   My kids chose their friends based on who they like not on their racial composition.  It has always bothered me when parents say they want their kids to have a racial diverse group of friends, to me it's like treating people like tokens.  You make a friend based on commonality not color.

I am not against balancing the FARMS rate because working for our PTA I've seen how much money we allocate to help those kids with supplies, enrichment and mentoring classes.

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