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Got it, thanks!

Bear with me here, but I  thought that the point of pairing Chevy Chase schools with a school in Silver Spring, was in fact to desegregate those two schools and add more diversity to them?

I would have hought that in addition to the kids from NCC & CC, MCPS would also have included kids from other parts of Silver Spring that are farther away?

Correct me if I'm wrong... but isn't the area around RH/Woodside JUST as white as where we are (off of Jones Bridge Rd)?

If this program was created to desegregate in the first place, why isn't MCPS drawing/bussing kids from elementary's that are further into Silver Spring to attend RH and NCC/CC also?

I apologize if I'm failing to see the big picture here, but it seems to me that if you're going to go through all of the trouble of having your entire student body change schools midway through elementary school, shouldn't a far greater effort have been made to TRULY desegregate and increase the diversity?

Please tell me if I'm missing something here, because it almost looks like a bait and switch occurred?
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All this was a long time ago.  From the one Post article from 1983 that's on its website, the split articulation was first put into place around 1976, was reversed in 1981, and then was put back into place in 1983 (including NCC).  Not clear whether NCC was involved in the original split articulation.  You'd have to look at what happened with NCC/CC/RH in the context of desegregation efforts generally to decide whether this was symbolic, or as much as could be accomplished in the face of opposition from some quarters, or something else.  Busing, for lack of a better term, is no less controversial today.  I'm not making a political judgment here, I'm just saying it's still very controversial.  Personally, I'm surprised that the split articulation has lasted as long as it did, and perhaps here, as may be in other cases in MoCo, justifications other than diversity are used to support its continuance.  But I'm not surprised at all that it is not more extensive.[/quote]

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