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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][size=18] Still, though, I'm having a hard time not hearing this as RH parents saying they just don't want any more poor children. These children are not to blame for the fact that their parents were laid off or single parenting or whatever. My child goes to a school with a significantly higher FARMS rate than 22% and I have to say -- unless you are making assumptions about ethnicities -- you can't tell who gets FARMS by looking.[/quote]

It's not that RH parents don't want any more poor children. The issues are first equity of resources for all the children and second preservation of Rosemary Hills Primary School and its surrounding community as a model of successful integration, both in the school and community. This is probably the only neighborhood that isn't homogenous in the whole BCC cluster. It's successful because the mini-cluster brought up the elementary school and encouraged more families from different races to move in, including whites.

We still have most of the poverty here, and that's okay - currently 19% compared to single digit poverty in the three schools we share the mini-cluster with. We chose to live here because we like the racial and socioeconomic diversity. But the Superintendent's rationale for kicking Paddington kids out of Bethesda Elementary so East Bethesda kids can go there says he favors geography over demographics. If that's his philosophy, similar decisions will follow. When does it stop? The NAACP says that the argument for "neighborhood schools" is an argument for re-segregation. I'm sure a lot of people support segregation, but I'm not one of them and I don't think the majority of families in the BCC cluster are.[/quote]

NP here.  Given the fact that Paddington is literally right across the street from RHPS, I do not myself understand why they should have to ride the bus over to BE.  Has anybody asked the Paddington residents what they prefer?  No, because we'll all sit here and talk about what they should think and do.  Paddington is also a pretty small apartment complex.  Are there really that many kids preventing your school from continuing "as a model of successful integration?"  Sorry, poster, but I have to call BS on your logic.   Not to mention the fact that 19% FARMS is way way WAY under the MCPS average for elem schools.  The rate at my kids' school is much higher and everybody seems to do just fine.
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