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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an NCC parent who strongly supported Option 1, as did most of the parents I know. Fwiw, these include families like my own, who are mixed race/ethnicities and have personal experience with immigration.

However, if the Board votes for Option 7, let's be clear what that means: it means that the new superintendent and the Board do not believe kids should be bussed to support greater racial and socio-economic diversity. Okay. Then stop busing my kids to RHPS; let them go to their neighborhood school just like every other part of Bethesda.

Cause if it's okay to bus 5yos to achieve a desired social outcome, it ought to be okay to bus 12-14yos. Just don't make the families in CC and NCC the only ones who are expected to sacrifice convenience and a neighborhood school to achieve diversity. [/quote]

THANK YOU!!!!   THIS ALL DAY LONG!  What the Superintendent did was a slap in the face to RHPS families who have sacrificed having neighborhood elementary schools to achieve equity in the lower income neighborhood that houses RHPS.  Stop busing tiny Kindergarteners out of their neighborhoods to achieve a more balanced racial and socio economic if the Super is saying it doesn't matter!  Why would the Super think it is acceptable to bus 5 year olds out of their home neighborhoods to a neighborhood several miles away for school but that a 12 to 14 year old can't hack the same bus trip in the name of socioeconomic equity.  If this decision stands, then the  NCC and CCES communities need to rise up and demand an end to bussing tiny children who live in Chevy Chase to Silver Spring.  Montco can't have it both ways!   Either socioeconomic equity is important or it isn't.  Montco Schools and the Super are being a hypocrits and need to be called out.[/quote]

OK, yes, I don't think anyone objects to the RHPS families advocating for this.  But these families, who obviously don't like the bussing situation, are now saying that to be fair RCF families should have to deal with the same thing?  Like, we're in a bad situation, so you should be too?  Instead - advocate for the RCF families going to school nearby, and then maybe they will support RHPS families in a push to end bussing.  Good for all!

(But just as a side note, my K student takes the bus and freakin' loves it, as do the other K students we know.  So the poor little K student taking the bus thing of the prior post does seem a bit dramatic).

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Well, good for your precious little snowflake that she loves the bus so much!   Let me educate you on what RHPS kids go through.  My kids hate it because the bus ride from RHPS to our house is 45 minutes long as they are the last stop.  My son gets off the bus every single day car sick and complaining.  Your RCF kid probably spend 5-10 minutes on the bus max, most of RCF kids are walkable to their school.  Totally different scenario as you have had the luxury of a neighborhood school unlike RHPS kids who have been bused straight into another city. RCF families can't even see they have cut their nose off to spite their face. Welcome to the overcrowded new middle school RCF!  Your kids will be in a school bursting at the seams instead of in a more moderately occupied school.  Geez, you people are insane.  Give me the school, any school, with the fewer kids and bigger better facility and fields.   [/quote]

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