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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hope so. Thanks so much to RCH for trying to delay the process. I'll be sure to make extra noise when I drive thru your precious neighborhood to pick up my kids at the new middle school.[/quote]

I'm not an RCH resident, but as a BCC cluster community member, I have been appalled by the tenor of discussion over these issues at PTA meetings and online.  Much of the discussion has been very "mean girl" or exclusionary.  Anyone who opposed a particular siting was labelled selfish or NIMBY or anti-progress, etc.  Your comment above has been typical.  I found the comments by Rafe whoever in the linked article above to be reprehensible.  RCH organized to prevent something happening in their neighborhood that they didn't think was in their interests.  East Bethesda (behind BCC) parents did the same thing by organizing against using the Lynbrook area and continually arguing that that area should be "saved" for future elementary school reclamation.  Rosemary Hills neighbors organized and spoke out against the use of the Coffield center for the new middle school.  Somerset and Westbrook neighborhood sitings were never seriously considered, so they didn't have to organize.  No community has a monopoly on knowing what is right for the cluster as a whole.... and the self-righteousness above is narcissistic.

The site selection committee knew that these issues about the zoning of the RCH site were ripe to be argued in court and when the committee chose the site, they had to know that litigation might cause a delay.  RCH was only pursuing all remedies available to it.  That doesn't mean that they are somehow a "precious neighborhood."

I personally think the RCH siting is a mistake (although not because of the zoning issue) and would have preferred a more central cluster site at Norwood Park or Lynbrook.  But, the (imperfect) process (including court cases) came out the way it did, and I can't really be angry at the people who didn't think the way I did. [/quote]

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