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[quote=Anonymous]I've got a daughter finishing up at RHPS this year, and wanted to respond to the OP. First, despite the number of people who jumped on you here, you're not alone in your concerns. Look, the same concerns tend to get expressed by parents about RHPS - check the archives here, you'll see periodic inquiries from CC MD parents who are horrified/worried/outraged that their little ones are going to be sent ***all the way*** to Silver Spring for K-2; that's code for OMG, I bought a million-plus house and now I'm nervous that my kid will be going to school with kids who come from very different circumstances. Just look at the debates about changing the boundaries for RHPS and NCES/CCES - the demographic/class balance is very much at issue for a lot of parents.

So yes, with respect to the middle school, my sense is that there is a small undercurrent of worry (not hysteria) that this might result in skewed demographics where Westland becomes all white / upper-middle class and the new school has a disproportionately higher population of FARMS/ESOL kids. No one is saying this directly, but the implications are there. Actually I heard one parent say this explicitly - a parent of one of my DD's classmates who happens to African American, for whatever that's worth.

HOWEVER, OP, just because I didn't join the others in flaming you doesn't mean that I agree with you or the others who think this. Mostly that's because of my experience with RHPS, which has been incredible. The teachers are great, the environment is incredibly nurturning despite its size (many of the staff people seem to know almost every one of the kids by name) and I've been surprised at how many super-high-income parents not only send their kids to school there, but devote tons of time and resources to the school. RHPS may have a slightly higher population of FARMS kids than Somerset, but I literally can't believe that the educational experience at Somerset is superior to that of RHPS. I am confident that any new middle school will have the same kinds of resources, both from MCPS and from the surrounding community. Plus it won't involve hours on a school bus sitting in traffic each day to go to an overcrowded school, so that sounds great to me.

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