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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at these maps, I realize that the problem is really that somehow, at some point in the past, a big part of Kennsington became deluded to think that they were "North Chevy Chase" or "Chevy Chase View" and probably with some political will forced themselves into the BCC cluster. If those kids just got moved to the WJ cluster like they should be, then East Bethesda can get moved back to Rosemary Hills/North Chevy Chase ES and Bethesda ES is no longer crowded. [/quote]

North Chevy Chase is an incorporated municipality. So is Chevy Chase View. Why the scare quotes?[/quote]

Stop with the Chevy Chase purity test.  NCC east of Connecticut and Chevy Chase View are actually too far away to be sent to WJ -- BCC is much closer.  Plus, when the Purple Line Trail reopens, these kids will once again be able to bike or walk to BCC like many used to.  They can't do that to WJ.

As a long time (50+) year resident of CHCH, I am so tired of people who insist that there are outsiders who don't belong to ChCh -- whether they're people who insist that those in Kensington outside the beltway don't belong at BCC or that those east of Rock Creek Park from RCF or RHPS don't belong at BCC.   Truth is that kids used to attend BCC even from - shocker - Kensington Parkwood Elementary, not only North Chevy Chase.  So both east and west sides of Kensington used to attend BCC (and not WJ).

I have even heard ridiculous people in the Town of Chevy Chase decry why they are busing those outsider kids from Rollingwood and Somerset and Whitman cluster to CCES.

Besides, like 10 years ago, the East Bethesda people advocated to get removed from the RHPS pairing.  It seems unlikely that they would suddenly want to move back, especially when it means putting their K-2 kids on school buses.  Also, E Bethesda considers themselves part of Bethesda and not Chevy Chase or North Chevy Chase.  Their kids cannot get to school without walking along Jones Bridge road and crossing Connecticut Avenue neither of which are very safe for ES kids.  They can't cut through the neighborhood south of Jones Bridge due to the country club grounds and the Howard Hughes Medical institute, so I feel pretty safe in saying that they are not going to re-pair up with NCC.

For someone who wants to police who truly belongs in the BCC area, you seem to actually know very little about it or its history. [/quote]

Everything you say is true, but there is even more. Silver Creek MS was built because Westland was over capacity as the only MS feeding BCC. This caused a potential building moratorium in Bethesda. You can imagine how much money was at stake with such a moratorium. SCMS alleviated that. If the neighborhood where SCMS is located were moved out of BCC, Bethesda would find itself back in moratorium. It will never happen. [/quote]

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