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Honestly, it's just hard to have much sympathy for the CC parents on this issue (especially when presented with such dramatics).  These same parents would probably say that their schools are better than the vast majority of the other schools in the county, and assuming that is true, you're doing pretty darn well.  [/quote]

CCES parent here.  I would agree that the Triad is better than the vast majority of schools in the county.  However, just because its seen by many as better does not make it an acceptable reason to screw over kids.  Is it so wrong that I am not satisfied with being above average or even better than "the vast majority" of the county as PP put it, or that I want the absolute best for my children?  I don't care what the county-wide FARMS rate, or racial makeup is, or capacity.  I care about the school my kids go to.  And if they're getting screwed over, as I believe option 7 is doing, then why would I not voice my concerns?

Ultimately, I think its a fair point being made by many PP - localization matters or diversity matters.  With option 7 the super is talking out of both sides of his mouth.  If they want to keep things local, readjust the ass-backward districting at RHES / CC / NCC and stop the bussing from CC to SS and vice versa.  If they want to keep diversity, then move RCF to Westland.  [/quote]

Its not voicing your opinion that's the problem.  Its the fact that A) your outrage/reaction is overblown B) you don't seem to get that there are other opinions and/or others who would be "screwed over" if things went a different way.  C) you also don't seem to get that the BCC MS#2 boundary study is a separate issue from the Triad set up.  Further, we could've discussed breaking up the Triad prior to this decision as many people pointed out but its only after things didn't go your way that you are considering it.[/quote]

There are multiple CCES parents posting here.  And we are outraged and have every right to be.  It's only overblown in your eyes because it isn't your community, your kids aren't getting screwed.  We wanted to discuss breaking up the Triad prior because it made sense and we were told NO by the head of the boundary committee that they would not visit the boundary issue and the Triad issue at the same time.  So we fought to keep the kids together rather than letting the Rosemary Hills neighborhood families get bused off and used as tokens to diversify Westland in a sea of strangers.  In hindsight, it seems fighting to keep those kids with us was a mistake and created to unequal institutions, a return to Segregation in Westland's case.  So you can just take a hike.  I'll take my resources and go private with the other familes because I can.[/quote]

Under the option selected, RCF is being split up (despite the success the school has had with integrating the two programs).  Under the option you want, the RCF families would "get bused off and used as tokens to diversity Westland in a sea of strangers."[/quote]

Doesn't RCF go to Westland now?  I don't understand the "bussed off" and "sea of strangers" comments.[/quote]

What's not to understand...  Yes RCF goes to Westland with all the surrounding schools, not as the only school on its side of the cluster.[/quote]

"Bused off" implies that RCF is being shipped someplace new or further.  It is not.  Yes, going to Westland under Option 1 would make it the only school going from this side of the crust, but it would suffer no increased burden over the burden it suffers now.  Implementing Option 7 would impose a burden on all the student on this side of the cluster by placing them in an overcrowded school that can't be expanded because the morons on the BOE chose to build on a small site, rather than the 32-acre site off Jones Bridge Road.  The new school site would have been better used for an elementary school.

I think a PP raised an interesting point.  If the CC/NCC/RH families had a double switch of schools I the early years, why can the down county neighborhoods deal with a split articulation so the demographics and capacity between the two schools can be balanced?[/quote]

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I think a PP raised an interesting point. If the CC/NCC/RH families had a double switch of schools in the early years, why can't the down county neighborhoods deal with a split articulation so the demographics and capacity between the two schools can be balanced?

Sorry, it's late.[/quote]

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