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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I raised the busing question on the thread about the new BCC middle school - we are in the Rosemary Hills catchment although not the neighborhood and while I love our schools (kids in both elementaries), I do question why these kids are bused while none of the other W schools are subject to any effort to promote desegregation. There was a very articulate and well-informed (nonpolemical) response in that thread explaining the difficulties of gerrymandering diverse elementaries in much of Bethesda and Potomac.

I don't have a good solution to any of this. But I do wonder whether the county is exposed to civil rights challenges.[/quote]

We're a mixed-race family in a pretty diverse neighborhood in the Whitman cluster.  One year one of our kids had a classroom that was close to 50% non-white.  It's true that diversity overall is less than elsewhere in the county.  The cluster is heavily single-family homes, and yes, they are expensive.  There are plans to build a lot of new apartments in the Westbard area of Bethesda, which may create some lower-cost housing opportunities and could help with diversity as well.  I support the idea, but want the county/city to think about how this will impact the schools, which are very overcrowded as it is.  Wood Acres, which would serve most or all of the new units in Westbard, has something like 850 kids already and is about to close for 18 months to undergo a much needed expansion.  Other than that, creating more diversity might require busing, which, given where Bethesda and Potomac are, could end up subjecting kids to heinously long bus rides.  I agree with the previous poster that gerrymandering boundaries would be hard because of geographics and existing overcapacity for most of the schools.  I don't see an easy solution either.[/quote]

Besides most parents don't want their kids around Whitman kids, so there is an issue getting them to want to bus.[/quote]

Huh? Was this a joke? What's the deal with Whitman kids?
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Drugs, elitist, lawyers getting them out of everything, never being accountable [/quote]

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