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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well consider yourself lucky RCF that you never had to deal with overcrowding through elemenatry!   How do you jusitify making other disadvataged kids who have to had to deal with overcrowding for years to even more of it?  We have a lot of disadvantaged kids, almost as many as you, who did not have the luxury of small classes.  It's not our faults we are overcrowded either.

The schools should start off as true equals in every way but since that won' t or can't happen, let's start with making the starting capacities equal!!!!
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Your assumptions are wrong, and you’re spreading a lot of misinformation. Please read this and try to understand where your neighbors are coming from.

1) RCF is not a Title 1 school, and does not get Title 1 services or benefits.

2) MCPS reports RCF’s demographics in aggregate for the whole school, neighborhood plus spanish Immersion. This is very misleading because those children do not learn in the same academic classrooms and have very different experiences in the classroom. So our reported (aggregate) FARMS rate is 26%. However, RCF neighborhood school FARMS rate is actually 43%, which is by far the highest FARMS rate in the Cluster. This is 145% higher than CCES, and 246% higher than NCC. RCF neighborhood school ESOL rate is 420% higher than CCES and 247% higher than NCC. Our neighborhood school is made up of 70% kids who are non-white.

3) We are a Focus school, which means in grades K-2 our neighborhood classes are small, and that is a benefit we definitely enjoy. But at 3rd grade and up, our neighborhood class sizes are the same as yours, which means jam-packed. In my child’s 3rd grade classroom there are 30 kids and in my older child’s 5th grade class there are 32 kids.

4) We do have a great new school, which is in its 2nd year, and is now at capacity. Everyone in 2nd grade and up spent time in our old school building that crammed more than 600 kids into a building designed for 250, had rodents and roaches, and was last updated in 1970 prior to being torn down in 2013. RCF was passed up for modernization for a decade while our wealthier neighboring schools got additions and upgrades. 
   
So, with all due respect, you don’t have “nearly as many disadvantaged children as RCF” (not even close), we do have plenty of experience with overcrowding (just like every school in the county), and we are not starting out on equal footing.  [/quote]

[b]Silver Spring parent expecting a Bethesda life style. Why are you complaining about the diversity and density you moved into[/b]? [/quote]

This is one of the most obnoxious things I think I have ever read. [/quote]

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