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Anonymous wrote:My experience with RCES and Lakelands principles, enrollment, and classes: My family and I moved here in early August. RCES was horrible to deal with when it came to getting the right contacts, finding the right info that was needed, and getting my 9yr old enrolled. Since my older DS attended this school for several years, I was shocked at how little information was communicated to parents, how outdated their school site was, how confusing the whole process was, and how frustrating the first semester was. In stark contrast, I found the Lakelands principle extremely helpful, clear, responsive, and knowledgeable. She kept parents and students well informed. Classes were better organized as well. It was a group effort, but I was able to get DS enrolled in the right classes for him. What is frustrating is that both locations allow teachers to organize their online classrooms however they see fit. There is no consistency between teachers. This makes it harder for kids to find, track, and complete assignments.

Agree, the new Lakeland’s principal is great. Very helpful and really trying to find the best balance for the middle schoolers.

Anonymous wrote:My experience with RCES and Lakelands principles, enrollment, and classes: My family and I moved here in early August. RCES was horrible to deal with when it came to getting the right contacts, finding the right info that was needed, and getting my 9yr old enrolled. Since my older DS attended this school for several years, I was shocked at how little information was communicated to parents, how outdated their school site was, how confusing the whole process was, and how frustrating the first semester was. In stark contrast, I found the Lakelands principle extremely helpful, clear, responsive, and knowledgeable. She kept parents and students well informed. Classes were better organized as well. It was a group effort, but I was able to get DS enrolled in the right classes for him. What is frustrating is that both locations allow teachers to organize their online classrooms however they see fit. There is no consistency between teachers. This makes it harder for kids to find, track, and complete assignments.

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Anonymous wrote:Working parents that have kids zoned to Carson, please share where do you send your kids to do DL now? HR has contacted me for planning employees to come into office to work, and I will not be able to supervise my kindergartener doing DL at home anymore.

You do the same as everyone else - spend thousands of dollars for your privilege to work while your child's teacher is staying safe at home, duh.

Where do you send spending thousands? Do you have names and locations?

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My kid attended RCES and then we had to move to Fairfax County for a few years. Now we are back and I'm happy about it. Its a good school, but so is Dufief. Obviously, there is animosity between the Kentlands/Lakelands residents with students that attend RCES and those that live outside those areas. Those outside these neighborhoods tend to think of the Kentlands/Lakelands residents as being elitist and looking down at non-residents and Kentlands/Lakelands residents want the school to be a walkable neighborhood school. There are other issues along this line that have been ongoing for years. As for the Mormon comment, I don't get it.

So, the presence of kids from the Governor Square Apartments somehow makes it impossible for kids from Kentlands to walk to school?

Or did you mean to say, "Residents who don't live in Kentlands/Lakelands correctly believe that Kentlands/Lakelands residents don't want them there."?

I’m a different poster, but I think this poster was probably referring to the fact that Kentlands and Lakelands parents would like to keep their communities zoned for the same elementary school rather than split between RCES and Dufief. If some RCES students get rezoned to Dufief, they want it to be students from other neighborhoods. However, the easiest way to siphon off 300 RCES students would have been to rezone a chunk of Lakelands, which is why parents historically accepted the overcrowding.

Thank you for clarifying my post.

That's nice that the "community " wants to shove the lower income kids from governor Apts and the orchards off to a different school. I'm sure the parents from the orchards would like to keep everything walkable, too. Orchards is much closer to the school than lake in the woods.

Don't get who doesn't get the mormon thing. Its a mormon church across from the school you pretend to walk to

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My kid attended RCES and then we had to move to Fairfax County for a few years. Now we are back and I'm happy about it. Its a good school, but so is Dufief. Obviously, there is animosity between the Kentlands/Lakelands residents with students that attend RCES and those that live outside those areas. Those outside these neighborhoods tend to think of the Kentlands/Lakelands residents as being elitist and looking down at non-residents and Kentlands/Lakelands residents want the school to be a walkable neighborhood school. There are other issues along this line that have been ongoing for years. As for the Mormon comment, I don't get it.

So, the presence of kids from the Governor Square Apartments somehow makes it impossible for kids from Kentlands to walk to school?

Or did you mean to say, "Residents who don't live in Kentlands/Lakelands correctly believe that Kentlands/Lakelands residents don't want them there."?

I’m a different poster, but I think this poster was probably referring to the fact that Kentlands and Lakelands parents would like to keep their communities zoned for the same elementary school rather than split between RCES and Dufief. If some RCES students get rezoned to Dufief, they want it to be students from other neighborhoods. However, the easiest way to siphon off 300 RCES students would have been to rezone a chunk of Lakelands, which is why parents historically accepted the overcrowding.

Thank you for clarifying my post.

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Anonymous wrote:We only have one set of workers in this country whose safety matters above anything else, namely the teachers. You, as a normal person whose safety and well-being are not important, will either pay for childcare or quit your job like millions of American women have done this year.

Well said PP.

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My kid attended RCES and then we had to move to Fairfax County for a few years. Now we are back and I'm happy about it. Its a good school, but so is Dufief. Obviously, there is animosity between the Kentlands/Lakelands residents with students that attend RCES and those that live outside those areas. Those outside these neighborhoods tend to think of the Kentlands/Lakelands residents as being elitist and looking down at non-residents and Kentlands/Lakelands residents want the school to be a walkable neighborhood school. There are other issues along this line that have been ongoing for years. As for the Mormon comment, I don't get it.

So, the presence of kids from the Governor Square Apartments somehow makes it impossible for kids from Kentlands to walk to school?

Or did you mean to say, "Residents who don't live in Kentlands/Lakelands correctly believe that Kentlands/Lakelands residents don't want them there."?

I’m a different poster, but I think this poster was probably referring to the fact that Kentlands and Lakelands parents would like to keep their communities zoned for the same elementary school rather than split between RCES and Dufief. If some RCES students get rezoned to Dufief, they want it to be students from other neighborhoods. However, the easiest way to siphon off 300 RCES students would have been to rezone a chunk of Lakelands, which is why parents historically accepted the overcrowding.

Anonymous wrote:We only have one set of workers in this country whose safety matters above anything else, namely the teachers. You, as a normal person whose safety and well-being are not important, will either pay for childcare or quit your job like millions of American women have done this year.

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Anonymous wrote:We are immigrants in essential jobs. We pooled together and hired someone from within our community who used to be an elementary teacher in the old country. It is effectively an immersion pod school in our native language.

What took some wiggling is figuring out English instruction and keeping it at least somewhat legal.

Not everyone else is doing this...

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Anonymous wrote:Working parents that have kids zoned to Carson, please share where do you send your kids to do DL now? HR has contacted me for planning employees to come into office to work, and I will not be able to supervise my kindergartener doing DL at home anymore.

You do the same as everyone else - spend thousands of dollars for your privilege to work while your child's teacher is staying safe at home, duh.

Where do you send spending thousands? Do you have names and locations?

We are immigrants in essential jobs. We pooled together and hired someone from within our community who used to be an elementary teacher in the old country. It is effectively an immersion pod school in our native language.

What took some wiggling is figuring out English instruction and keeping it at least somewhat legal.

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Anonymous wrote:Working parents that have kids zoned to Carson, please share where do you send your kids to do DL now? HR has contacted me for planning employees to come into office to work, and I will not be able to supervise my kindergartener doing DL at home anymore.

You do the same as everyone else - spend thousands of dollars for your privilege to work while your child's teacher is staying safe at home, duh.

Where do you send spending thousands? Do you have names and locations?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Working parents that have kids zoned to Carson, please share where do you send your kids to do DL now? HR has contacted me for planning employees to come into office to work, and I will not be able to supervise my kindergartener doing DL at home anymore.

You do the same as everyone else - spend thousands of dollars for your privilege to work while your child's teacher is staying safe at home, duh.

Anonymous wrote:Working parents that have kids zoned to Carson, please share where do you send your kids to do DL now? HR has contacted me for planning employees to come into office to work, and I will not be able to supervise my kindergartener doing DL at home anymore.