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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden. [/quote]

Totally disagree.  I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.  [/quote]

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.[/quote]

I actually think 5 is the best.  [/quote]

If you think that MCPS is going to put all of the poor kids in the cluster in the same middle school, you haven't been paying attention.[/quote]

I don't have any delusions that they will choose 5.  Just stating what I think seems the most logical.[/quote]

I'm another 5 supporter.  It's efficient.  Yes, you end up with different demographics at the two schools, but that's just a natural by-product of geography.  There are different demos in Maine and Florida, but the US doesn't try to merge them together (only a half serious comment to illustrate the point).

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Demographics in the US are never just a product of geography. They are the product of decades of racial covenants, redlining of mortgage loans and similar forms of discrimination. [/quote]

+100.  Thank you!!! This is true of parts of the BCC cluster - which had racially and religiously restrictive property covenants and of the greater DC area.  Many places have become segregated due tk redlining and due to the effect of programs like the FHA and other government programs.  It's not "natural geography"[/quote]

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