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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a lot of resentment and bad feelings on the part of the neighborhood parents against the Spanish immersion program.  This was reasonable.  But the school held an "encounter group" type meeting where people were encouraged to discuss their feelings about the issue.

Instead of real issues (which I agree there are), many parents stood up and said they were tired of defending themselves to their CC neighbors who couldn't understand why anyone would send a kid to Rock Creek Forest, which has a much higher % of lower SES kids than other CC cluster schools.  And there was just this underlying feeling of "we pay a lot of taxes, why should our kids go to school with poor kids" kind of thing.  I found it ugly and upsetting.[/quote]

As one of the parents who was there and is in the neighborhood and sends their child to the school in the English program, I have to say that you have it all wrong. We are only annoyed with defending ourselves to our immediate neighbors - those who live in RCF who don't send their kids to the school or refused to once they didn't get into the immersion program. It is from those people that we get the looks of pity.  This has nothing to do with the rest of Chevy Chase - we know we are out of their league!

And really, let's face it, if you look in the school directory 95% of the immersion kids come from Silver Spring/Takoma Park and the OTES/Einstein part of Kensington so clearly most of those parents are escaping high FARMS schools as well.[/quote]

I'm another parent who attended that meeting.  I completely disagree with the poster who is claiming that there was a feeling of why should our kids go to school with poor kids.  I didn't hear anything like that from any parent and I'm not sure why you want to mischaracterize the attitudes of my neighbors on this board.  It's totally irresponsible of you.  [/quote]

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