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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it was a handful of bored trolls on DCUM, trying to rile up people.

I well remember the redistricting of Bethesda ES, where the families in the Silver Spring apartments being bused to Bethesda said they wanted a school that was closer, otherwise they couldn't participate in events/activities or have a sense of community, since most of them had no car and Bethesda was too far away. It was an eye-opener for the more affluent do-gooders, who had not imagined at all that the poors could ever want to participate or wish to build a community... :-)

So to all of you rich people, please think twice before posting nonsense!
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This is incorrect. It was the boundary study for Silver Creek MS. The complaint was that the white people wanted Rock Creek Forest to be assigned to Westland MS and Bethesda ES to be assigned to Silver Creek MS to balance FARMS across the two MSs. However, the Rock Creek Forest families said no way. They didn’t care about going to school in a “white neighborhood”. They preferred to go to a school closer to home for the same reasons that everyone prefers to send their kids to school closer to home. The result from the equity report is that it shows a large racial disparity across the boundary from Silver Creek to Westland, which was by choice.[/quote]

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