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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?  [b]Like, we're in a bad situation, so you should be too? [/b] 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).[/quote]

That's exactly it, PP: as you note, CCES and NCC are "in a bad situation" as you put it -- but we're only there because MCPS leadership decided at some point that diversity was more important than convenience for our neighborhoods. OK, if that's your logic, then why isn't diversity in the middle schools more important than convenience? Why does ease of transportation matter more for RCF - and the rest of Bethesda for that matter - than it does for us in Chevy Chase? The county can't have it both ways. If diversity is a lower priority, great, then let my 1st grader walk to his neighborhood school, which isn't Rosemary Hills.

It's not about the horrors of a bus ride. My kids didn't mind the bus. It does create a lot of complications for families and once you have a child in CCES or NCC, you realize how much nicer it is to have a neighborhood school. The real point is that there should be some basic consistency, if not across the county then at least within the BCC cluster. You can't tell me that my 5yo should be sent to a different school to achieve a certain social goal, but then insist that the same social goal is not a priority for older kids.[/quote]

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