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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]

Maybe if they did split articulation it could happen, with SCMS feeding to both BCC and WJ (or Woodward).[/quote]

A split articulation would not work - CCES, NCCES and RCF feed to SCMS.  NCC encompasses kids who live N of the Beltway on the east side of Kensington (primarily relatively wealthy and white) as well as kids who live S of the Beltway as far south as East-West hey (also primarily wealthy and white) and kids from the part of the neighborhood around RHPS that are paired w/NCC (lower SES and higher minority pop).

If you were to split articulate all of NCC to SCMS and then to WJ - kids who currently live less than 3 miles/15 mins away from BCC (many of whom can walk or bike to BCC) would literally be bused across the entire BCC cluster to WJ for a 5-6 mile/half hour commute.

If you were to split articulate only that portion of NCC north of the Beltway to WJ (which is only a portion of the NCCES area), you would be articulating relatively few students most of whom would be wealthy and white, thus concentrating the poor and minority students left at SCMS (who then articulate to BCC).

If your goal was to get rid of the poor and minority students from the BCC cluster through split articulation to WJ, that will not work because most of these students live in the far east of the BCC cluster around RHPS and RCF - far to far away from WJ practically speaking to send them to WJ. It would also be unpalatable because the burden of busing would once again fall on minority students, which was an issue when the pairing was set up, and in the creation of which schools were re-districted to SCMS instead of Westland.  Not to mention that many of us older ChCh residents do not want re-segregation.

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