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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're then given the realization that your kid will be going to a school that's literally twice as far as the #1 closest school and that there are 4 other elementary schools that are literally *MILES* closer.  Why you ask are the kids going to the 5th closest school and forced to commute TWICE as far?  Oh, because we want to maintain the success of FARMS and ESOL integration at this #5 school.  You do a little math and realize each of your little kids will be bused nearly 1000 extra miles per school year (nearly 3000 unnecessary toddler commuting miles over k-2) to help out in this involuntary social experiment.  By no sensible measure is this a reasonable proposal.[/quote]

At that point, if you don't support the structure in place to ensure diversity in all the schools (i.e., if you want your kid in an all white, all wealthy school), you choose not to buy a home in that neighborhood, or you decide to send your kid to private school. You are full of hatred and psychosis.  A true representative of East Bethesda. I take it all back. We're better off with high FARMS and higher numbers of minority students, with you and your kids GONE. Good riddance. [/quote]

You know the school boundaries when you buy the home and they have been fairly stable until recently.   If you didn't want the k-2 or more diverse school in the BCC cluster, there were other options in Bethesda that were probably in the same price point.  I also know people that go to our school, not RH but another Bethesda school, that I wonder how this is the closest school.  I don't hear all heck breaking loose likely because the school has a great reputation.  As for all the parents claiming they would walk their kid to school if only they lived within walking distance, I find this hard to believe.  I live within walking distance of a school and can tell you a) most people don't walk their kids to school or let their kids walk by themselves to elementary school and b) if you need to be at work by 8:30 or even 9:00 it would be a challenge when school starts at 8:50 or so.  I've seen true crazy boundaries where I grew up where a tiny sliver of the south side of town went to a school clear on the north side of town, minimum 20-30 minute drive, more than 5 miles away, I could see why parents would get upset with that kind of commute.

The people that mentioned not being able to see both kids in the parade or having siblings the same place, I can understand the desire to have kids in one place.  The other reasons I have to wonder.[/quote]

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