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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think:

Westland - Westbrook, Somerset, RCF
New - NCC, Bethesda ES, CCES

This
-balances FARMS, ESOL
-balances school population
-keeps walkers within walking distance (somerset kids in Kenwood are within walking distance to Westland)
-keeps the rosemary hills kids together[/quote]

Why is there an absolute need to balance the farms? Why not just let them go to the closer more convenient school for them or do you suggest that they care more about some weird middle class paranoia about being surrounded by them more than their own logistics? I purpose that there isn't enough of them to worry about gerrymandering for any other reason other then locality.[/quote]

I'm going to ignore the us and them stuff.

My two cents are that 1) MCPS doesn't want to create a school that is so overwhelmingly white and high income because it messes with their ideals of racial and socioeconomic diversity and inclusion. Studies have shown that kids who are academically disadvantaged (usually due to poverty/language barriers/lack of education in parents) do better when surrounded by high achieving classmates, so that is a way to boost the achievemnet gap between those kids and the high SES kids. 2) i firmly believe that if one of the middle schools has a significant percentage of FARMs kids, even if it is no more than 20 percent, that it will scare away many of the more affluent families who will try to COSA into Westland or Pyle or go private. There are lots of people who don't send their kids to RHPS and RCF for this very reason, despite what they tell you.[/quote]

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