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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched the video public testimony from the BOE meeting on Thursday. I’m a bit puzzled by some of the comments from people about equity. I absolutely want equity for others and am fortunate to live in a wealthier area, but those comments from people, what do they want? Are they asking for MCPS to bus them from BCC and Woodlin ES 30 minutes away to schools to mix wealthy families with those who aren’t? Are they wanting poorer kids to be bussed 30 mins to their schools?

I get it on the margins like Kensington could be mixed with Einstein, or parts of Silver Spring could go to BCC, but to bring kids to Whitman from Silver Spring or from Churchill to Crown or from Darnestown to Crown just doesn’t make sense.

So what are these people really seeking?[/quote]

We are just pissed that these options leave some DCC schools still over crowded (Wheaton and Kennedy) but not the richer schools, that there is tons of split articulation forcing our kids to go to different middle schools than their friends but almost none for the richer schools, and that DCC FARMS rates get worse rather than better.  And all of this is in every single option so basically it's like MCPS is saying "we won't even consider doing anything that the richer schools wouldn't like, the only choices are around which DCC families will get hurt more, fight amongst yourselves."   (And this combined with the way they are taking the DCC away from us and hurting some of our schools with the program changes is just adding insult to injury.)

Wr don't want anything crazy, just a basic sense of fairness.  But that is apparently too much to ask.[/quote]

But you make no sense and talk out of both sides of your mouth. You look down on people who chose “wealthy schools” and say you would never want to buy there or send your kids to that environment but then right here you whine that your FARMS rate might go up. So which is it, you are cool with socioeconomic diversity or you’re only cool with it when it’s the exact amount you think is appropriate? [b]You lament your kids possibly being sent to middle schools away from friends but you simultaneously love and want to keep your current DCC set up and have no problem when all those kids shuffle up and separate from friends in high school. [/b]You’re worried about overcrowding at 2 schools (Wheaton and Kennedy) that I don’t even think your child attends or will attend and to which you are not zoned. No one knows what you really want because all you actually say is harm the wealthier schools and not me. [/quote]

That's a good point.  It doesn't make sense for the DCC people to care about split articulation while arguing they want to....articulate to multiple high schools.[/quote]

1) Going into the socially-brutal middle school years alongside a solid group of friends vs being separated from them is very different from going to different schools for high school. 
2) With the DCC, kids can choose to stay together with friends at their base area school if that's their top priority, or pick a different school if what that other school offers is more important to them than going to school with pre-existing friends.  It gives them choice.  Split articulation for middle school forces kids apart and offers no choice.  Totally different.[/quote]

However when parents of kids at W schools don't want split articulation entering middle school we are racist a**holes who are only worried about our wealth. Got it. [/quote]

Or this can be viewed as an opportunity to expand you friend group and learn about meeting new people.  Plus friend groups shift in middle all the time.  It’s expected that some of the ES friendships won’t make it.[/quote]

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