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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was not able to attend, but found this report on the meeting to be helpful:
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/County-School-System-Begins-Boundary-Drawing-Process-for-New-Bethesda-Chevy-Chase-Middle-School/[/quote]

I'm calling it....

Westbrook, Somerset and CC + Rosemary hills -> Westland
NCC, Bethesda and RCF -> BCC MS
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Your “calling it” takes the children from three schools and “unpairs” them after they have been together and switched twice in their K-5 experience.  It also undermines the desegregation plan that arose after tremendous controversy and now is a social success story, and it creates upwards of a 15-20% difference in white populations between the two schools.  To achieve this dubious result, kids in the school furthest from Westland would have to endure the longest commute across the cluster.  Using that logic, Westbrook could be sent north to the new school with Rosemary Hills, Rock Creek Forest, and the northern half of Chevy Chase.
  
[b]I’m struggling to understand why your call isn’t anything more than wishful thinking motivated by something other than the best interests of the students.   
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Don't understand why your are getting upset by someone who came up with an idiotic plan?  Do you think that taking the children who live closest to RHPS and splitting them from NCC and shipping them out is going to occur is a serious call?

It would make the most sense to send RCF to Westland to balance the socioeconomic diversity.

They are on the fringe of the boundary as it is, and there has been talk of moving them out of BCC for years because of the overcrowding.  They only were able to go to Westland for the emersion program, which will not be at the new middle.[/quote]

They can move the Immersion program.  Westland is too far...  Chevy chase needs to go there.[/quote]

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