Boundary change needs to happen and while doing it if we can avoid situations like two ES in the same cluster ending with 7% and 70% FARMs then we should surely do that.

BOE in their infinite wisdom decided to create boundary with 7% and 70% in RM cluster when new ES came online.

Completely ridiculous. Boundary studies HAVE to happen because demographics and population sizes change.

Also, NO ONE is entitled to go to a particular public school. If you want a guarantee, go to a private school and make sure your kid doesn't get kicked out. Just because you bought a house in a particular community doesn't mean you're entitled to go to the school you're districted for at that point.

As the parent of a kid districted to Rachel Carson ES--one of the most overcrowded in MCPS--I absolutely welcome boundary changes that will alleviate that problem. I have every confidence my kid will be fine because she has two parents committed to giving her a safe, enriching environment. And if we find her school isn't working for her, we will move, as I imagine most of the parents who have the time to go to that meeting could do as well.

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Anonymous wrote:I went. It was not pretty. About 100 there, give or take. I’d say it was over half Asian and South Asian parents who attended. Then whites. About six or seven black parents. I couldn’t identify anyone who may be LatinX.

Several Asian parents said they absolutely did not want diversity, and an older white man said he didn’t either, because it would disrupt the “social cohesion” of students. On white guy started mansplaining to the moderator how she should do her job.



I can understand being concerned that your kid might have to go to a whole new school. But I absolutely do not understand the backlash against more diversity at your own school.

Did they say explicitly that they did not want diversity? Or is that the interpretation of their words?

No. That’s what one Asian woman in the front left said, explicitly.

Are you the same poster stating "Several Asian parents said they absolutely did not want diversity"?

Now we are backing up from "several" to "one"?

Anonymous wrote:I was present in meeting. No Asian parent said that they absolutely don't want diversity.

Simply said, no one wanted to focus on diversity if it means they will be slotted to different schools.

That was my interpretations of what parents were saying.

She said it at the very beginning of the meeting.

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Anonymous wrote:I went. It was not pretty. About 100 there, give or take. I’d say it was over half Asian and South Asian parents who attended. Then whites. About six or seven black parents. I couldn’t identify anyone who may be LatinX.

Several Asian parents said they absolutely did not want diversity, and an older white man said he didn’t either, because it would disrupt the “social cohesion” of students. On white guy started mansplaining to the moderator how she should do her job.



I can understand being concerned that your kid might have to go to a whole new school. But I absolutely do not understand the backlash against more diversity at your own school.

Did they say explicitly that they did not want diversity? Or is that the interpretation of their words?

No. That’s what one Asian woman in the front left said, explicitly.

I was present in meeting. No Asian parent said that they absolutely don't want diversity.

Simply said, no one wanted to focus on diversity if it means they will be slotted to different schools.

That was my interpretations of what parents were saying.

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If you really feel the need for people to make comments with their names revealed, why don't you do that first, email the reporter with your name, and your comments on that "a DCUM poster should contact the Bethesda Beat reporter to add comments to the record with his/her name"?

I think that would be fair, right?

Huh?

If I had been there (which I wasn't), and the reporter had talked to me, I would have told the reporter my name.

You were asking a poster here to tell the reporter his/her name about his opinion posted here.
Why don't you do the same, tell the reporter your opinion posted here, and your name.

I really don't care if people do that, but if you do, then let's be fair.

The question was whether people at the meeting, who said the things quoted in the article, but declined to provide their names, were ashamed to have their names associated with their opinions.

If you share the opinions of those people, and you don't think those opinions are anything to be ashamed of, then one thing you can do is e-mail the reporter and offer to state your opinions with your name attached.

And for this part: if you have an opinion which you posted here: "If you share the opinions of those people, and you don't think those opinions are anything to be ashamed of, then one thing you can do is e-mail the reporter and offer to state your opinions with your name attached." If you don't think this is something to be ashamed of , then one thing you can do is e-mail the reporter and offer to state your opinions with your name attached.

omg quit arguing about this

Anonymous wrote:I went. It was not pretty. About 100 there, give or take. I’d say it was over half Asian and South Asian parents who attended. Then whites. About six or seven black parents. I couldn’t identify anyone who may be LatinX.

Several Asian parents said they absolutely did not want diversity, and an older white man said he didn’t either, because it would disrupt the “social cohesion” of students. On white guy started mansplaining to the moderator how she should do her job.



I can understand being concerned that your kid might have to go to a whole new school. But I absolutely do not understand the backlash against more diversity at your own school.

Did they say explicitly that they did not want diversity? Or is that the interpretation of their words?

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If you really feel the need for people to make comments with their names revealed, why don't you do that first, email the reporter with your name, and your comments on that "a DCUM poster should contact the Bethesda Beat reporter to add comments to the record with his/her name"?

I think that would be fair, right?

Huh?

If I had been there (which I wasn't), and the reporter had talked to me, I would have told the reporter my name.

You were asking a poster here to tell the reporter his/her name about his opinion posted here.
Why don't you do the same, tell the reporter your opinion posted here, and your name.

I really don't care if people do that, but if you do, then let's be fair.

The question was whether people at the meeting, who said the things quoted in the article, but declined to provide their names, were ashamed to have their names associated with their opinions.

If you share the opinions of those people, and you don't think those opinions are anything to be ashamed of, then one thing you can do is e-mail the reporter and offer to state your opinions with your name attached.

And for this part: if you have an opinion which you posted here: "If you share the opinions of those people, and you don't think those opinions are anything to be ashamed of, then one thing you can do is e-mail the reporter and offer to state your opinions with your name attached." If you don't think this is something to be ashamed of , then one thing you can do is e-mail the reporter and offer to state your opinions with your name attached.

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If you really feel the need for people to make comments with their names revealed, why don't you do that first, email the reporter with your name, and your comments on that "a DCUM poster should contact the Bethesda Beat reporter to add comments to the record with his/her name"?

I think that would be fair, right?

Huh?

If I had been there (which I wasn't), and the reporter had talked to me, I would have told the reporter my name.

You were asking a poster here to tell the reporter his/her name about his opinion posted here.
Why don't you do the same, tell the reporter your opinion posted here, and your name.

I really don't care if people do that, but if you do, then let's be fair.

The question was whether people at the meeting, who said the things quoted in the article, but declined to provide their names, were ashamed to have their names associated with their opinions.

If you share the opinions of those people, and you don't think those opinions are anything to be ashamed of, then one thing you can do is e-mail the reporter and offer to state your opinions with your name attached.

Then ask those people (to share their names), not posters here to do so.

I think that logic is not hard to understand, right?

Anonymous wrote:I went. It was not pretty. About 100 there, give or take. I’d say it was over half Asian and South Asian parents who attended. Then whites. About six or seven black parents. I couldn’t identify anyone who may be LatinX.

Several Asian parents said they absolutely did not want diversity, and an older white man said he didn’t either, because it would disrupt the “social cohesion” of students. On white guy started mansplaining to the moderator how she should do her job.



I can understand being concerned that your kid might have to go to a whole new school. But I absolutely do not understand the backlash against more diversity at your own school.

Two are interrelated.

I was present in meeting. It was mostly Asians, Indians and Whites. Few AA parents as well. I think parents are scared of losing house value and many have stretched to buy in certain schools. There is flip side as well. I know many parents from Einstein are gung ho about getting slotted to WJ or Woodward to increase their house prices.

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If you really feel the need for people to make comments with their names revealed, why don't you do that first, email the reporter with your name, and your comments on that "a DCUM poster should contact the Bethesda Beat reporter to add comments to the record with his/her name"?

I think that would be fair, right?

Huh?

If I had been there (which I wasn't), and the reporter had talked to me, I would have told the reporter my name.

You were asking a poster here to tell the reporter his/her name about his opinion posted here.
Why don't you do the same, tell the reporter your opinion posted here, and your name.

I really don't care if people do that, but if you do, then let's be fair.

The question was whether people at the meeting, who said the things quoted in the article, but declined to provide their names, were ashamed to have their names associated with their opinions.

If you share the opinions of those people, and you don't think those opinions are anything to be ashamed of, then one thing you can do is e-mail the reporter and offer to state your opinions with your name attached.

I went. It was not pretty. About 100 there, give or take. I’d say it was over half Asian and South Asian parents who attended. Then whites. About six or seven black parents. I couldn’t identify anyone who may be LatinX.

Several Asian parents said they absolutely did not want diversity, and an older white man said he didn’t either, because it would disrupt the “social cohesion” of students. On white guy started mansplaining to the moderator how she should do her job.



I can understand being concerned that your kid might have to go to a whole new school. But I absolutely do not understand the backlash against more diversity at your own school.

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Anonymous wrote:

If you really feel the need for people to make comments with their names revealed, why don't you do that first, email the reporter with your name, and your comments on that "a DCUM poster should contact the Bethesda Beat reporter to add comments to the record with his/her name"?

I think that would be fair, right?

Huh?

If I had been there (which I wasn't), and the reporter had talked to me, I would have told the reporter my name.

You were asking a poster here to tell the reporter his/her name about his opinion posted here.
Why don't you do the same, tell the reporter your opinion posted here, and your name.

I really don't care if people do that, but if you do, then let's be fair.

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Absolutely!

I’d rather the county spend money to bring resources into schools where kids are living so they can help them rather than spend it on studies and transportation to artificially boost numbers by bussing in kids who will do well anyway.

You, also, can e-mail the reporter and offer to make comments on the record, with your name.

I haven’t hidden my name or my face from anybody when I attend moundary meetings and I won’t be implied to be a racist because I want my kids to go to a schoolnear my house. I feel no need to put my name on DCUM.

I didn’t attend this meeting because I think attending them has been unproductive. They don’t care what we want. QOHS is not a bastion of white privilege. It is a diverse school. North Potomac is not a giant racist suburb of assholes, no matter how this stupid article made it sound.