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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So what if they did decide to bus kids to create more diversity? That benefits all kids[/quote]

No it doesn't. By bussing kids from far away into a school that is 400 students over capacity while the school system does nothing to relieve the crowding, all students  are harmed. What is so damn frustrating for parents at Rachel Carson is that MCPS will not do anything to alleviate this. Travilah, Dufief and Cold Spring all are under enrolled and need students. Favorite teachers have been pushed into retirement or transferred. Staff has been cut creating logistical issues. Those schools would happily take more kids. MCPS said no to allowing voluntary COSAs from RCES into those schools because those kids would be higher SES kids. MCPS also said no to bussing the lower income students that travel from further away to RCES over to Travilah or Dufief because that would leave RCES with not enough minority students. Its reasonable that Cold Soring is too far but Travilah or Dufief are not. URM students do very well at Travilah and this would be better for them.

Its so stupid that all the kids at RCES, Travilah and Dufief need to suffer because some dim wit that cares more about balancing the racial profiles than educating students is in charge at central office.

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I am sure that’s right, so I’ll amend my statement to say it benefits all kids—but only if they balance for enrollment numbers. By the way, teachers can’t get forced into retirement without cause, but they can get shunted to another school. Same is true for any teacher—they don’t lose their job, but they can get moved to a school with higher enrollment if theirs drops. It’s a major reason many colleagues of mine have left MCPS—they could never put down roots because they kept getting assigned to jobs in areas with fluctuating enrollment. As the last one in, they were repeatedly the first one out. Just when they got comfortable, it was “too bad so sad.” I personally had fits of anxiety every year until I was no longer the one vulnerable to being “involuntary transferred.” Anyway, that’s a different topic, but another bit of MCPS short-sightedness. [/quote]

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