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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can avoid it, try and get out of Rachel Carson.  It's not Mormons or FARMS as the previous posters have said (which quite frankly seems ridiculous).  Diversity in an elementary school is a good thing.

The issue is the administration is terrible.   Turned over about 4 years ago, and the new principal is really disliked by the parents and many of the teachers.   She doesn't seem like a bad person, just way in over her head and extremely under qualified.   The rumor was that nobody else wanted the job given the size of the school and how tough many of the parents are, but obviously just a rumor - so who knows.

Think I'm crazy?   Just look at how the school rankings have changed since she took over...we have all dealt with the overcrowding (and it's EXTREMELY overcrowded) because the school was so great.   Not anymore.

It used to be one of the best, if not the best elem school in MCPS.  But it's really gone downhill and shows no signs of improving.   It's a hot topic across the Kentlands and Lakelands, but I just don't see it changing.    All that said, there are some amazing teachers there who are trying their best.  [/quote]

We’re a Lakelands family and have had to make the tough decision to send our kid to private ES. The old RCES principal was apparently well-loved, but people do not like the new one. Add that on top of everything else and we have to just opt out.[/quote]

I find this hilarious since parents *hated* the previous principal.  He didn't cave to every parent demand and knew how to handle the Karens in there day after day. If I heard someone taking about how they disliked him I would always say "you'll  be sorry when he's gone" because he ran a very tight ship and held every teacher accountable, cut bad teachers out of the mix immediately, pushed trouble maker kids out and kept eyes on what was going on during every school event etc. Now that he's gone... Welp, here we are. [/quote]
I didn’t realize parents hated him. I had a lot of respect for him. Under his tenure, RCES was a Blue Ribbon school less than a decade ago. He ran things the way he felt would work best and gave other people less input. It seemed to me that the new principal seemed to have more of a “Go ahead any make some suggestions, let’s shake things up and see what works” kind of approach, and some things didn’t work.

RCES is definitely overcrowded, but the class sizes aren’t any bigger than they are at other schools.[/quote]

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