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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this 
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity.  Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

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Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else. [/quote]

This has been happening for many years to other families.  [/quote]

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring.  They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3?  Think again!  Rosemary Hills is their model. [/quote]

For those who don’t know. Also want to add that for Chevy Chase kids CCES is a short walk from both sides of Connecticut where there is a crossing guard. Once they get to CCES from RH, they all walk. Same for Rosemary Hills neighborhood and the vast majority of the Silver Spring kids, Rosemary Hills is walkable. Both schools literally in the backyards of their students respective neighborhoods.  Neighborhood schools were not prioritized. And this was in 1983 before DEI. Didn’t matter.  Now the entire county will get the same treatment. As a result most of Chevy Chase families send their kids to private schools. Very  Good chance of Option 3 happening. There is precedent.[/quote]

Doubt it.[/quote]

Live in denial then at your own peril. The families don’t even have a leg on to sue MCPS or the county.  The Rosemary Hills situation is the model. [/quote]

The playing field may have changed PP, with the 2023 Supreme Court DEI cases and all. Plus just read the news. It gets worse every day on this.

Now will MCPS adopt option 3 or something like it anyways? Of course! I agree that no one should be in denial over that.[/quote]

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