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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched the hearing tonight, and was cracking up to see in the CCES PTA testimony that they finally clued in to the effective tactic their opponent has been using to crush them so completely. Too bad they didn’t figure it out until a week before the decision comes down. See what kind of magic can happen when you actually talk with, involve, and even (gasp!) empower your under-resourced, diverse community members? Imagine what might have been had they grasped this concept much earlier in the game, and expanded it beyond one father to their Silver Spring communities as a whole…  [/quote]
This made me find the video and watch it myself. I am watching the testimony from the 10th, although it sounds like the testimony on the 3rd was more lively.

I am not really sure what your post is referring to.[/quote]
I would just add that holy hell, I just arrived at the crazy guy. He is out of control.[/quote]

In last night's hearing CCES had a minority dad from their Silver Spring community talk about why he's opposed to Option 7. In my opinion it was more persuasive than any other testimony made so far by RH, CCES, or NCC. But it's likely it was too little, too late, and they were stupid and arrogant not to involve their underserved communities earlier in an organized fashion. RCF's voice has been so powerful because from the beginning the Hispanic community was organized, coordinated, and vocal, and it's clear that the Superintendent and other BOE members heard them. It's much more powerful to have the communities being discussed and bandied about ("the diverse community") speak directly about what they want and what's good for them.

Crazy guy from last week was quite amazing. A spitting mad white guy up there ranting about the privilege being enjoyed by Rock Creek, the school where half the kids are poor and the majority are brown, was such a great idea. SMH[/quote]
PP here. I do agree with you somewhat. However, I think RCF just had the better argument. "We're poor, why should you single us out because we are poor? We don't have cars, why make it even harder for us to be engaged members of the school community? We have that engagement at RCF, we're doing well and we deserve to go to the closest school like the rich people too. Plus, the outcome will not exactly be catastrophic unless you consider that 75% of MCPS schools have catastrophic FARMS rates and the capacity is well within the acceptable range." The CC/NCC argument basically came down "Option 7 leaves us with too many poor kids, which is unfair. We are already doing our part."

Just trying to be rational through all of this, the third rail is that substantial boundary changes are needed. The Lyttonsville community should probably just all go to RHES K-5 and then on to a MS in Silver Spring. MS#2 should probably take NCC, RCF and E. Bethesda. They'll need the extra capacity for Chevy Chase Lake anyway and it is a small site. E. Bethesda should probably just get their own ES at Lynnbrook. Westland would take CCES, Westbrook, Somerset and a revised BES boundary that is fully west of Wisconsin and maybe takes back some of the boundary that was given to Bradley Hills & the Whitman cluster or else the school will have 90% kids in apartments. The Whitman cluster needs that anyway because Westbard.

But why be rational when we can fight each other to the death?[/quote]

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