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Anonymous wrote:Oh that makes sense, everyone should just get to pick which schools they want to go to!

Just stating the facts. At the MOST overcrowded elementary school in the county, one that has been consistently overcrowded for more than 10 years, kids are bused in from a few miles away. They drive past 2 other elementary schools once of which is under-capacity by over a 100 students.

If MCPS does a boundary study, and you show up to say that the solution to Rachel Carson's capacity problem is to send the poor kids who currently go to Rachel Carson to a different school -- people might take it the wrong way.

Well at our ES the richest kids come from miles away, past 3 elementary schools and I would like them redistricted. So would they. It doesn't matter who they are, what they are, the amount of $$ they have or don't have. The boundaries for many of these over-capacity schools have got to shrink. They are all over the map because builders keep building and schools are not being built for them.

The fact that the kids furthest away from RC are "poor" by some people's standards here on DCUM should not matter. They pass a school at 70% capacity with the same SES level as RC.

RC parent here. No, I do not mind the Gov Square kids coming to our school. There are some awesome kids who are doing really well and great to have in class. I DO mind that our school is incredibly over capacity. Removing the kids that are the farthest away would seem like a logical solution.

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I was the PP here and I don't even like in the area (live in Rockville) or have my kids go there. I get laid plenty fine. You sound like a bitch who is jealous of those who are financially better off than you and make fun and stereotype them to build up your very low self esteem. You can't have your school at 70% capacity and not think other surrounding schools at 120% and much higher want to lessen their load. Since you don't have a child in a ridiculously overcrowded school (I do) you have no idea how hard it is for faculty and students. But you obviously are fine with the Stepford families having an overcrowded school so you don't have to. It is selfish. The county needs to redistrict many schools. Rachel Carson and Matsunaga first because they are far more over-crowded than other schools, even the one we are in (and we are at 130%) If it means your school going to full capacity, so be it. Every kid in the county deserves equal education. But there is no way they should redistrict kids that walk to school. The kids that get bussed are the first to get moved. It is that simple. You are just complaining because you don't want the apartment kids coming to your school, right? You sound like a real gem.

The Rachel Carson PP doesn't want the apartment kids coming to Rachel Carson, either.

For Matsunaga, Northwest Elementary School #8 is in the CIP with a completion date of August 2017 -- if there's funding...

Anonymous wrote:Oh that makes sense, everyone should just get to pick which schools they want to go to!

Just stating the facts. At the MOST overcrowded elementary school in the county, one that has been consistently overcrowded for more than 10 years, kids are bused in from a few miles away. They drive past 2 other elementary schools once of which is under-capacity by over a 100 students.

If MCPS does a boundary study, and you show up to say that the solution to Rachel Carson's capacity problem is to send the poor kids who currently go to Rachel Carson to a different school -- people might take it the wrong way.

Oh that makes sense, everyone should just get to pick which schools they want to go to!

Just stating the facts. At the MOST overcrowded elementary school in the county, one that has been consistently overcrowded for more than 10 years, kids are bused in from a few miles away. They drive past 2 other elementary schools once of which is under-capacity by over a 100 students.

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They are at 70% (maybe even below) this year. And yes, they should have moved the kids bussing into RC to D. No brainer. No school up the street from each other should be 70% at one and 160% at the other.

Where are you getting the 70%/160% numbers from?

Also, what proportion of kids at Rachel Carson get bused? And are you suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments get bused to Dufief?

What are you suggesting? The kids 2 blocks away from RC get bussed to Dufief and keep bussing in kids from further away communities to RC? I mean, lets be realistic.

You sound like a real gem. Get laid tonight and relax. Your kids are not at HARVARD - this is an elementary school that most people have never heard of other than the superficial stepford families who overpay to live in the Kentlands and the Lakelands. Plus, your children are probably not all that bright anyway. If they take after you (dumb + poor attitude), they are unlikely to do well in life. At least by going to school with the kids who are bused in, they may learn about people from different backgrounds and to have a little character.

Signed,

A Dufief Elementary School Parent

I was the PP here and I don't even like in the area (live in Rockville) or have my kids go there. I get laid plenty fine. You sound like a bitch who is jealous of those who are financially better off than you and make fun and stereotype them to build up your very low self esteem. You can't have your school at 70% capacity and not think other surrounding schools at 120% and much higher want to lessen their load. Since you don't have a child in a ridiculously overcrowded school (I do) you have no idea how hard it is for faculty and students. But you obviously are fine with the Stepford families having an overcrowded school so you don't have to. It is selfish. The county needs to redistrict many schools. Rachel Carson and Matsunaga first because they are far more over-crowded than other schools, even the one we are in (and we are at 130%) If it means your school going to full capacity, so be it. Every kid in the county deserves equal education. But there is no way they should redistrict kids that walk to school. The kids that get bussed are the first to get moved. It is that simple. You are just complaining because you don't want the apartment kids coming to your school, right? You sound like a real gem.

Anonymous wrote:They also drive past Dufief.

Do you live in the Governor Square apartments? If not, my suggestion is that you speak for yourself about which school you want your kids to go to, and the parents from the Governor Square apartments speak for themselves about which school they want their kids to go to.

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They are at 70% (maybe even below) this year. And yes, they should have moved the kids bussing into RC to D. No brainer. No school up the street from each other should be 70% at one and 160% at the other.

Where are you getting the 70%/160% numbers from?

Also, what proportion of kids at Rachel Carson get bused? And are you suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments get bused to Dufief?

What are you suggesting? The kids 2 blocks away from RC get bussed to Dufief and keep bussing in kids from further away communities to RC? I mean, lets be realistic.

You sound like a real gem. Get laid tonight and relax. Your kids are not at HARVARD - this is an elementary school that most people have never heard of other than the superficial stepford families who overpay to live in the Kentlands and the Lakelands. Plus, your children are probably not all that bright anyway. If they take after you (dumb + poor attitude), they are unlikely to do well in life. At least by going to school with the kids who are bused in, they may learn about people from different backgrounds and to have a little character.

Signed,

A Dufief Elementary School Parent

They also drive past Dufief.

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Anonymous wrote:

They are at 70% (maybe even below) this year. And yes, they should have moved the kids bussing into RC to D. No brainer. No school up the street from each other should be 70% at one and 160% at the other.

Where are you getting the 70%/160% numbers from?

Also, what proportion of kids at Rachel Carson get bused? And are you suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments get bused to Dufief?

What are you suggesting? The kids 2 blocks away from RC get bussed to Dufief and keep bussing in kids from further away communities to RC? I mean, lets be realistic.

I'm suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments continue to get bused to Rachel Carson.

Why? They are at 160%. Why should they continue to get bussed passed an under-capacity school to go to one that is 160% over capacity and further away. Please tell me why you are suggesting that?. Very curious to know why.

Because there is too much residential economic segregation in Montgomery County. Because it is bad for poor kids to go to high-poverty schools. And because they're not getting bused past an under-capacity school. Fields Road was at 100% capacity last year.

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Anonymous wrote:

They are at 70% (maybe even below) this year. And yes, they should have moved the kids bussing into RC to D. No brainer. No school up the street from each other should be 70% at one and 160% at the other.

Where are you getting the 70%/160% numbers from?

Also, what proportion of kids at Rachel Carson get bused? And are you suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments get bused to Dufief?

What are you suggesting? The kids 2 blocks away from RC get bussed to Dufief and keep bussing in kids from further away communities to RC? I mean, lets be realistic.

I'm suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments continue to get bused to Rachel Carson.

Why? They are at 160%. Why should they continue to get bussed passed an under-capacity school to go to one that is 160% over capacity and further away. Please tell me why you are suggesting that?. Very curious to know why.

Anonymous wrote:Kids across 28 from RC are bused to RC because of the busy road. Sending these kids to Dufief would seem like a no brainer. Not sure of exact numbers but any little bit would help.

They live literally across the street from Rachel Carson. They live closer to the school than most of the kids from Kentlands and Lakelands.

But I don't know -- maybe those parents would be eager to have their kids bused to Dufief. Or maybe they wouldn't.

Kids across 28 from RC are bused to RC because of the busy road. Sending these kids to Dufief would seem like a no brainer. Not sure of exact numbers but any little bit would help.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They are at 70% (maybe even below) this year. And yes, they should have moved the kids bussing into RC to D. No brainer. No school up the street from each other should be 70% at one and 160% at the other.

Where are you getting the 70%/160% numbers from?

Also, what proportion of kids at Rachel Carson get bused? And are you suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments get bused to Dufief?

What are you suggesting? The kids 2 blocks away from RC get bussed to Dufief and keep bussing in kids from further away communities to RC? I mean, lets be realistic.

I'm suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments continue to get bused to Rachel Carson.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

They are at 70% (maybe even below) this year. And yes, they should have moved the kids bussing into RC to D. No brainer. No school up the street from each other should be 70% at one and 160% at the other.

Where are you getting the 70%/160% numbers from?

Also, what proportion of kids at Rachel Carson get bused? And are you suggesting that kids from the Governor Square apartments get bused to Dufief?

What are you suggesting? The kids 2 blocks away from RC get bussed to Dufief and keep bussing in kids from further away communities to RC? I mean, lets be realistic.