Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:44     Subject: Carson?
Does it have CES? I thought it did. Starting kinder next year
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:38     Subject: Carson?
I hear about they have a scout program, not sure if it is boy, girl or co-ed starting at k level? Are they friendly, accommodating ( flex schedule, younger sibling or special need), organized and involved?

I hear it is super crowded & chaotic (esp lunchtime), but as pp say, not sure how many families have moved to private or homeschool not coming back.

Btw, what is CES? And, my kid has IEP & zoned to this school, how are their IEP teachers?
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:26     Subject: Re:Carson?
Anonymous wrote:Your kids will be fine at Rachel Carson or Dufief. They can get a good education at either school. Right now Rachel Carson is large and Dufief is small. The plan was to rezone 300 RCES students to Dufief. I’m not sure how that will play out post pandemic. Enrollment at RCES has been trending downward the last few years. I don’t know how many students might have left for private schools that are open for in-person. Figuring out who would get rezoned will be very tricky politically. I think it’s entirely possible it won’t end up happening any time soon.


If the addition to Dufief gets built, then there will be a boundary study. Guaranteed.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:26     Subject: Carson?
Idd ad by there a gifted program? CES?
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:17     Subject: Re:Carson?
Anonymous wrote:Terrible name for either boy or girl.


Oops, this wasn't a name thread!
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:17     Subject: Re:Carson?
Terrible name for either boy or girl.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:14     Subject: Re:Carson?
Your kids will be fine at Rachel Carson or Dufief. They can get a good education at either school. Right now Rachel Carson is large and Dufief is small. The plan was to rezone 300 RCES students to Dufief. I’m not sure how that will play out post pandemic. Enrollment at RCES has been trending downward the last few years. I don’t know how many students might have left for private schools that are open for in-person. Figuring out who would get rezoned will be very tricky politically. I think it’s entirely possible it won’t end up happening any time soon.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:05     Subject: Carson?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rachel Carson has a local CES so if your child does well in school they may be able to join the program. The redistricting is something that has been talked about for years but I am unsure of when it is to be implemented. There is a high FARMs rate at Rachel Carson. The FARMS kids and local kids don't seem to mingle very much socially. There is a mean girls and mean boys element as is to be expected in that little area but probably true of most elementary schools. And no one calls it Carson.


The FARMS kids are[b] the local kids, just like the non-FARMS kids.


No, sorry. There are some FARMS local but they also are bussed in from another area of Gaithersburg.


If they are attending their zoned elementary school, they are local.


The kids from 5 miles away aren't local. They're bussed in.

The kids from Lakelands are bused in too.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 15:01     Subject: Carson?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it or is it not a good school?

Some people seem to imply it would be better without kids being bused in from half way across the county.


It would have higher test scores if not for FARMS kids from (checks notes) 3.5 miles away.its still a nice school.
For the record, Captain Equity Crusader, the kids are not bussed to Rachel Carson because 'they're almost zoned there and will go to QO anyway'
They're bussed there from a leftover idea that integrating students with bussing will lead to a better academic outcome for them. Test scores show thats just not true. Those kids do poorly because they come from families that don't value education. The money spent on bussing and boundary studies would be better spent on programs educating the parents on why academics matter. And then training them how to do stuff like go to the library and read to their children. But that might hurt someone's feelings and then Captain Equity Crusader wouldn't know what to get his panties in a bunch about.

And to clear it up, if anything brings the school down, its the mean girls not the non local farms kids. But I am explaining what the OP would see if they look at the metrics for the school.


Ew, PP.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 14:59     Subject: Carson?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it or is it not a good school?

Some people seem to imply it would be better without kids being bused in from half way across the county.


It would have higher test scores if not for FARMS kids from (checks notes) 3.5 miles away.its still a nice school.
For the record, Captain Equity Crusader, the kids are not bussed to Rachel Carson because 'they're almost zoned there and will go to QO anyway'
They're bussed there from a leftover idea that integrating students with bussing will lead to a better academic outcome for them. Test scores show thats just not true. Those kids do poorly because they come from families that don't value education. The money spent on bussing and boundary studies would be better spent on programs educating the parents on why academics matter. And then training them how to do stuff like go to the library and read to their children. But that might hurt someone's feelings and then Captain Equity Crusader wouldn't know what to get his panties in a bunch about.

And to clear it up, if anything brings the school down, its the mean girls not the non local farms kids. But I am explaining what the OP would see if they look at the metrics for the school.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 14:47     Subject: Carson?
Anonymous wrote:Is it or is it not a good school?

Some people seem to imply it would be better without kids being bused in from half way across the county.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 14:36     Subject: Carson?
Is it or is it not a good school?
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 14:34     Subject: Carson?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rachel Carson has a local CES so if your child does well in school they may be able to join the program. The redistricting is something that has been talked about for years but I am unsure of when it is to be implemented. There is a high FARMs rate at Rachel Carson. The FARMS kids and local kids don't seem to mingle very much socially. There is a mean girls and mean boys element as is to be expected in that little area but probably true of most elementary schools. And no one calls it Carson.


The FARMS kids are[b] the local kids, just like the non-FARMS kids.


No, sorry. There are some FARMS local but they also are bussed in from another area of Gaithersburg.


If they are attending their zoned elementary school, they are local.


The kids from 5 miles away aren't local. They're bussed in.


Five miles away? Huh.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/RachelCarsonES.pdf

Oh, you're referring to kids who live WAY OVER THERE in the Governor Square apartments in Gaithersburg, which is (checks map) 3.5 miles away from the school. So what, specifically, makes them "non-local"?

Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 14:24     Subject: Carson?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rachel Carson has a local CES so if your child does well in school they may be able to join the program. The redistricting is something that has been talked about for years but I am unsure of when it is to be implemented. There is a high FARMs rate at Rachel Carson. The FARMS kids and local kids don't seem to mingle very much socially. There is a mean girls and mean boys element as is to be expected in that little area but probably true of most elementary schools. And no one calls it Carson.


The FARMS kids are[b] the local kids, just like the non-FARMS kids.


No, sorry. There are some FARMS local but they also are bussed in from another area of Gaithersburg.


If they are attending their zoned elementary school, they are local.


The kids from 5 miles away aren't local. They're bussed in.


I mean, RCES is kind of at the edge of its own service zone, and the "bussed in" kids make sense to preserve the articulation pattern to LPMS. Basically, this isn't at all the weirdest boundary in MCPS, and it is the result of specific geographic and articulation patterns that have some internal logic.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2020 13:45     Subject: Carson?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rachel Carson has a local CES so if your child does well in school they may be able to join the program. The redistricting is something that has been talked about for years but I am unsure of when it is to be implemented. There is a high FARMs rate at Rachel Carson. The FARMS kids and local kids don't seem to mingle very much socially. There is a mean girls and mean boys element as is to be expected in that little area but probably true of most elementary schools. And no one calls it Carson.


The FARMS kids are[b] the local kids, just like the non-FARMS kids.


No, sorry. There are some FARMS local but they also are bussed in from another area of Gaithersburg.


If they are attending their zoned elementary school, they are local.


The kids from 5 miles away aren't local. They're bussed in.