Anonymous wrote:Can someone point me to the actual boundaries that are being proposed? We're house hunting and I have no idea what "east bethesda" means. I saw some mention early on in this thread that implied connecticut avenue was a cutoff, but don't know what that means. FWIW, we're looking in chevy chase on either side of connecticut usually above Bradley and below EW Highway, but no farther east than Beach Drive.

East Bethesda is the area north of E-W highway, south of Jones Bridge and between Wisconsin and Connecticut. I *think* the areas you are looking in are not affected, and will be RHPS/CCES which is a great set of schools.

Can someone point me to the actual boundaries that are being proposed? We're house hunting and I have no idea what "east bethesda" means. I saw some mention early on in this thread that implied connecticut avenue was a cutoff, but don't know what that means. FWIW, we're looking in chevy chase on either side of connecticut usually above Bradley and below EW Highway, but no farther east than Beach Drive.

16:59 is funny, and makes my OP even more believable, sad.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can't afford to live in nice white neighborhoods with good schools, take your liberal bias and class warfare out of here and let us live our lives the way God intended.

Here's hoping you're being facetious. What about those of us who can afford these "nice white neighborhoods" but happen to be nonwhite and would appreciate not being the only one in the neighborhood?

Tell your friends to move into the neighborhood as well then

Anonymous wrote:If you can't afford to live in nice white neighborhoods with good schools, take your liberal bias and class warfare out of here and let us live our lives the way God intended.

Here's hoping you're being facetious. What about those of us who can afford these "nice white neighborhoods" but happen to be nonwhite and would appreciate not being the only one in the neighborhood?

Anonymous wrote:The article is more about what is happening to the cluster in general. Whether one particular child is or is not in private school is irrelevant.

14:22, you're not serious are you?
Did you read what 20:40 said?


It's relevant when that child is the child of the author. Bias much?

Anonymous wrote:If you can't afford to live in nice white neighborhoods with good schools, take your liberal bias and class warfare out of here and let us live our lives the way God intended.

Or, focus your energy on improving your own school or on your job so that you can make more $$ to afford a better neighborhood with better schools.

09:09 is right, we deserve what our higher property taxes can pay for.

Anonymous wrote:If you can't afford to live in nice white neighborhoods with good schools, take your liberal bias and class warfare out of here and let us live our lives the way God intended.

is that a modest proposal?

If you can't afford to live in nice white neighborhoods with good schools, take your liberal bias and class warfare out of here and let us live our lives the way God intended.

That East Bethesda lobby and its arguments have demonstrated their qualifications to be worthy of running adds for republican primaries.

The article is more about what is happening to the cluster in general. Whether one particular child is or is not in private school is irrelevant.

....and aside from reading betwixt the lines the article actually has precious little to do with the elementary school experiment. However, you are thanked for providing a shining, public example of someone doing what they can to avoid it, most likely for one of the 6 or 7 reasons mentioned in the other thread about "Free Lunches"

14:58 here: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/197519.page

Anonymous wrote:Here is someone who's explaining well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/where-we-live/post/bethesda-hevy-chase-middle-school-debate-heats-up/2012/01/11/gIQArdifrP_blog.html

Yes they do explain it well as they've chosen to send their toddler not to the Rosemary Hills experiment nor Rock Creek Forest, but INSTEAD to a PRIVATE SCHOOL until their tot is old enough to go to Chevy Chase Elementary.

From the article itself -
"(Full disclosure: I [the author of the article] live in Rock Creek Forest. I have one child in private elementary school in the District; one at Chevy Chase Elementary School; and one child who attended Westland Middle School and now is at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.)"


We may be on them thar internets, but we're not stewpid, and DO know how to read between the lines.