Anonymous
12/22/2024 15:52
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
For the 30-40 RCF immersion kids, who have been going to school together for eight years, and have formed friendships with kids at Westland, it is hard to be forced to go to a high school where you essentially know no one. The social and emotional well-being of these kids also needs to be considered.
As for numbers there are about 30-40 RCF immersion students per grade at Westland, some of whom are already zoned for BCC. It is not a large cohort.
That’s the reality of going into a specialty program. When it’s over, you return ti your home school. Same for kids who go to magnet middle schools, or CES programs. If staying with the same kids is important to a family, they should stick with their inbounds schools.
Your comparison is inapt - kids who go to a CES magnet or magnet middle school are only with a different cohort for 3 years, so it's easier for them to return to a homeschool. Kids who have dome
the RCF immersion have been together for all of ES and MS, they have no relationships at their homeschool to return to.
Let's be honest about what drove the desire of BCC parents to end the progression of immersion kids to BCC - parents were upset that these kids somehow "got into" BCC without "paying" for BCC by buying a house in boundary - which one really can't do for under $750 anymore.
I say this as a longtime Chevy Chase resident who finds that sentiment rather ugly. I think it would be a benefit for the school if we had immersion kids more fluent in spanish taking upper level Spanish AP and IB classes. But, many view them as lower SES riff-raff who somehow cheated their way into a more expensive club.
Do you know approximately for how many years (ex..2000-2023 etc..) RCF immersion students had been allowed to go to Westland then BCC? Now RCF immersion students have to go to Westland and dont have the SSIMS option (unless they are in bounds for SsIMS). So if you want your kid to form friendships for HS, go back to your inbound MS instead of Westland and miss 3 years of Spanish immersion.
Anonymous
12/22/2024 15:46
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
For the 30-40 RCF immersion kids, who have been going to school together for eight years, and have formed friendships with kids at Westland, it is hard to be forced to go to a high school where you essentially know no one. The social and emotional well-being of these kids also needs to be considered.
As for numbers there are about 30-40 RCF immersion students per grade at Westland, some of whom are already zoned for BCC. It is not a large cohort.
That’s the reality of going into a specialty program. When it’s over, you return ti your home school. Same for kids who go to magnet middle schools, or CES programs. If staying with the same kids is important to a family, they should stick with their inbounds schools.
They won't stick inbounds because it's too "diverse" for them..
Anonymous
12/22/2024 14:26
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
For the 30-40 RCF immersion kids, who have been going to school together for eight years, and have formed friendships with kids at Westland, it is hard to be forced to go to a high school where you essentially know no one. The social and emotional well-being of these kids also needs to be considered.
As for numbers there are about 30-40 RCF immersion students per grade at Westland, some of whom are already zoned for BCC. It is not a large cohort.
That’s the reality of going into a specialty program. When it’s over, you return ti your home school. Same for kids who go to magnet middle schools, or CES programs. If staying with the same kids is important to a family, they should stick with their inbounds schools.
Your comparison is inapt - kids who go to a CES magnet or magnet middle school are only with a different cohort for 3 years, so it's easier for them to return to a homeschool. Kids who have dome
the RCF immersion have been together for all of ES and MS, they have no relationships at their homeschool to return to.
Let's be honest about what drove the desire of BCC parents to end the progression of immersion kids to BCC - parents were upset that these kids somehow "got into" BCC without "paying" for BCC by buying a house in boundary - which one really can't do for under $750 anymore.
I say this as a longtime Chevy Chase resident who finds that sentiment rather ugly. I think it would be a benefit for the school if we had immersion kids more fluent in spanish taking upper level Spanish AP and IB classes. But, many view them as lower SES riff-raff who somehow cheated their way into a more expensive club.
Perhaps. But the immersion kids tend to start BCC taking Spanish 4 in 9th grade, the same class as the kids who started in 6th grade. I guess they are either just put into it or opt for it as to have an easy class but it’s an unfair advantage to those who haven’t been learning in Spanish since K. It also show that there’s just no more Spanish “pathway” for them once they reach HS, so why should they be at BCC?
Also, it’s 40-50 immersion students per year. That could be up to 200 kids total (9-12), in an already crowded school.
Parents know this going in, so it shouldn’t be a surprise.
Anonymous
12/22/2024 14:04
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
For the 30-40 RCF immersion kids, who have been going to school together for eight years, and have formed friendships with kids at Westland, it is hard to be forced to go to a high school where you essentially know no one. The social and emotional well-being of these kids also needs to be considered.
As for numbers there are about 30-40 RCF immersion students per grade at Westland, some of whom are already zoned for BCC. It is not a large cohort.
That’s the reality of going into a specialty program. When it’s over, you return ti your home school. Same for kids who go to magnet middle schools, or CES programs. If staying with the same kids is important to a family, they should stick with their inbounds schools.
Your comparison is inapt - kids who go to a CES magnet or magnet middle school are only with a different cohort for 3 years, so it's easier for them to return to a homeschool. Kids who have dome
the RCF immersion have been together for all of ES and MS, they have no relationships at their homeschool to return to.
Let's be honest about what drove the desire of BCC parents to end the progression of immersion kids to BCC - parents were upset that these kids somehow "got into" BCC without "paying" for BCC by buying a house in boundary - which one really can't do for under $750 anymore.
I say this as a longtime Chevy Chase resident who finds that sentiment rather ugly. I think it would be a benefit for the school if we had immersion kids more fluent in spanish taking upper level Spanish AP and IB classes. But, many view them as lower SES riff-raff who somehow cheated their way into a more expensive club.
Anonymous
12/21/2024 22:51
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
For the 30-40 RCF immersion kids, who have been going to school together for eight years, and have formed friendships with kids at Westland, it is hard to be forced to go to a high school where you essentially know no one. The social and emotional well-being of these kids also needs to be considered.
As for numbers there are about 30-40 RCF immersion students per grade at Westland, some of whom are already zoned for BCC. It is not a large cohort.
That’s the reality of going into a specialty program. When it’s over, you return ti your home school. Same for kids who go to magnet middle schools, or CES programs. If staying with the same kids is important to a family, they should stick with their inbounds schools.
Anonymous
12/21/2024 22:12
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
For the 30-40 RCF immersion kids, who have been going to school together for eight years, and have formed friendships with kids at Westland, it is hard to be forced to go to a high school where you essentially know no one. The social and emotional well-being of these kids also needs to be considered.
As for numbers there are about 30-40 RCF immersion students per grade at Westland, some of whom are already zoned for BCC. It is not a large cohort.
Anonymous
12/21/2024 19:48
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:What part of Rock Creek Forest doesn’t already feed into BCC? The non immersion RCF kids are at Silver Creek right now and I thought all of them would continue on to BCC.
PP wanted the immersion kids to continue to B-CC, rather than going to to their home schools after they finish Westland.
Anonymous
12/21/2024 16:01
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:What part of Rock Creek Forest doesn’t already feed into BCC? The non immersion RCF kids are at Silver Creek right now and I thought all of them would continue on to BCC.
Yes, that's true. But the RCF immersion kids are at Westland and would not continue on to BCC (unless it's their zoned HS).
Anonymous
12/21/2024 15:58
Subject: Westland to BCC
What part of Rock Creek Forest doesn’t already feed into BCC? The non immersion RCF kids are at Silver Creek right now and I thought all of them would continue on to BCC.
Anonymous
12/21/2024 15:57
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
Many Silver Spring kids are zoned for BCC.
Anonymous
12/21/2024 15:54
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
Or one could rent.
DP
Anonymous
12/21/2024 15:47
Subject: Westland to BCC
Immersion already gets to up rated for most of the students from their native school zone until middle. Why would it carry over to high school after the program ends. If you want to go to BCC there is a simple way to do it, buy a home zoned for it. Silver Spring is great until your kids have to mix with other silver spring kids?
Anonymous
12/20/2024 19:44
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Downtown Bethesda has had insane development in the recent years. All the high rises that developers swore up and down would be for professional adults, no kids, are filling up with families of young kids eager to go to attend Bethesda public schools. For now, BCC is not over capacity, because we're mostly seeing the impact on Bethesda Elementary, which will need to add more portables soon.
But make no mistake - BCC is on its way to being completely inundated in a few years.
So there needs to be a downcounty boundary study to review all this.
In fact there is!
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/boundary-study/
Anonymous
12/20/2024 18:44
Subject: Westland to BCC
Anonymous wrote:Of course! It will happen right as Taylor gets the additional $284 million he needs from BOE 🙄
Not from the BOE. From the County Council. The BOE doesn't have any taxing authority.
Anonymous
12/20/2024 18:12
Subject: Westland to BCC
sorry for typos!