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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are a CCES, NCC, RHPS parent and you are OK with Option 7, you need to wake up!!!!!!!  Option 1 is the most equitable.  You are not only doing a disservice to your OWN children with 7, but think of the next two decades of kids you are selling short.

You are bequeathing them an overcrowded school from the moment it opens with a lopsided FARMS and overall diversity rate that essentially turns Westland into a "private school" (not my words but the words of friends of mine at the proposed Westland boundary who love to the new arrangement because their property values "jumped overnight!")  It is board sanctioned segregation thanks to a weak BOE pandering to RCF.  Why is the NAACP not involved in this?  What about the achievement gap they are so desperate to close?   Does it not matter that they are creating what will no doubt be an overachieving school in Westland and a less achieving school at BCC#2 due to overcrowding, inequity and lack of resources?

We have the real kids in need at RHPS.   Our kids don't live in single family homes like RCF able to walk to a BRAND NEW SCHOOL for 6 years!  They live in multi level government housing, Paddington, Barrington, Summit Hills.  They get to stay local for three years and then are bused!  Amazing that RCF pitches a fit and gets their way about proximity after having it so easy when RHPS has paved the way for equity and diversity through shared sacrifice by busing for over three decades and is expected to give even more!  How about RCF participates in shared busing too for three years?  They get a brand spanking new walkable neighborhood school for 6 whole years and then they get bused for only three in middle school? Amazingly, under that plan, they still get a better deal than RHPS/CCES/NCC!

This is not "overblown" or "hysteria".   These are the facts.   The people who have been holding up the Diversity and Equity bargain in Chevy Chase and NCC are tired of being railroaded.[/quote]

So much in this to unpack, here goes:

"Creating what will no doubt be an overachieving school in Westland and a less achieving school at BCC#2 due to overcrowding, inequity and lack of resources?" 
-Besides the overcrowding, what's the inequality exactly? So, Westland may end up with better test scores but that doesn't mean that high achieving kids at MS#2 will be any less high achieving. Amazing how people see a FARMs level of 15% and freak out

"Our kids don't live in single family homes like RCF able to walk to a BRAND NEW SCHOOL for 6 years!  They live in multi level government housing, Paddington, Barrington, Summit Hills."
- The neighborhood program at RCF is mostly comprised of kids from the apartment buildings near the school- Rollingwood, Friendly Gardens and Round Hill. Most, if not all of these kids are low-income minorities. The percentage of white, upper-middle class kids in the English program is probably no more than 30%.
- Yes, RCF does have a brand new school, after years of fighting to replace one full of mold and rodent droppings. We were pushed back in the queue several times by schools with more forceful and wealthier PTAs. Now that we have the new school, MCPS decided to throw thee extra programs at the school, so it now houses 5 separate programs (English, Immersion, PEP, autism, pre-K) with no extra assistance for our amazing principal. The school is projected to be overcrowded in a year. But, that's par for the course in MCPS.

Option 7 has put the school in a real bind with the two programs at odds.

Moral of the story is that nothing is perfect. No one wins. We aren't paying $35K/year for school so we have to make some compromises.

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