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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought that the superintendent's recommendation isn't the final say. Doesn't the BOE have to accept the recommendation? As an RCFES parent, I leaned toward wanting the kids to go to Westland. It would be nice to be closer to home, but I worry that a few vocal CCES parents will make those kids feel unwelcome, and will continue to feel (quite irrationally, in my view) that their personal resources are being directed toward lower SES kids. [/quote]

Bethesda has always resented the RCF kids. [/quote]

That's interesting.  Do you have a source for that?  Do you think they resent the RCF kids, or do they RCF parents that, for the sake of their transportation convenience, want two inequitable schools to exist in the cluster with the potential of exacerbating the opportunity gap?[/quote]

The objections are famously vitriolic when they included a silver spring school in the cluster and then they worked to close it which the county was prepared to do in 1982 to placate them. It was only after the threat of losing federal school money by resegragrating that the county dropped the plan to close the school.

I don't speak for those parents but I am pretty sure they weren't focused on convenience or the opportunities afforded those kids.  They knew it was a harbinger for the darkening of the county and they were afraid it would give poor people a way to there school without paying the segregation real estate tax that is homeownership in places like Bethesda. Basically the same objections you hear today when people try to add density to better neighborhoods.[/quote]

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