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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 [b]45 minutes each way every day[/b]. 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]

I live in Rosemary Hills. There's no part of the CCES area that takes 45 minutes to get to RHPS. Maybe on a very rare occasion if there was an accident somewhere on the way, but not as the norm. And it's a very small slice of the Silver Spring kids who get bused to CCES, the poorest kids from a particular apartment complex, who are bused just to make wealthy CCES families feel better that there's diversity at their school. The rest go to NCC like my kids did. Stop being such a martyr. [/quote]

The buses stop multiple times at multiple bus stops along the way. It isn’t a straight shot. You aren’t taking that into account. By the time they get they get to the last stop in Chevy Chase, it’s been 45 minutes!  Obviously you didn’t live this but I DID!!!! [/quote]

And you are right it’s only a small slice of the poorest kids sent to CCES, the rest go to NCC which is much closer. It’s like one school bus of kids leaving CCES for Rosemary Hills/Silver Spring to one location (the apartments) so one stop whereas there are multiple buses leaving RHPS for Chevy Chase every day with multiple stops. Your experience was cushy and as you sit on your progressive throne looking down, good for you![/quote]

The demographics of the two schools are virtually identical. Check out the school profiles. [/quote]

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