I think all the complaining about the sacrifices entailed in going to a school a half mile or whatever further away are being way overstated. It's almost mathematically impossible for everyone to go to their nearest school and as someone whose kids have been among the furthest to travel to RHPS and Westland, I don't think its that big a deal. We are not taking about busing from the central city to the suburbs here.

I also am a little disgusted by the suggestion that we should try to segregate our schools by income.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.

I actually think 5 is the best.

If you think that MCPS is going to put all of the poor kids in the cluster in the same middle school, you haven't been paying attention.

Technically all the poor kids go to the same middle school now don't they? And why is creating a desirable highly rated and functioning middle school that will draw more upwardly mobile people to the area a bad thing? The new school will still be above avg and attract people who look to avoid Silver Spring schools and Westland might finally make a run at Pyle in terms of performance. Combined with logistically what is best for most everybody and minimal bussing it seems like a no brainier to me.

Since minimal busing is the RCF goal, maybe CCES should feel that way too., send CCES to Westland with Westbrook, BE and Somerset. We are geographically closer to Westland and the school has more capacity for 4 schools than the new middle. NCC, Rosemary Hills and Rock Creek Forest take all the poor kids that are geographically closer to the new middle which will have more room to grow with the PL. You all will have a sky high Farms rate but seems you are ok with that. Quit using and abusing CCES kids to artificially lower farms rates of schools that are not anywhere close to their community and are in fact in entirely different towns! Since you all want to play ball, let's do the really fair thing and give our community a break. We do our part. Someone else step up.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.

I actually think 5 is the best.

If you think that MCPS is going to put all of the poor kids in the cluster in the same middle school, you haven't been paying attention.

Agree 100%. It also signals to the RHPS parents that the decades long sacrifice and effort to lower farms and for greater economic diversity was for nothing. It would send a terrible elitist message to the wider BCC cluster of creating another Pyle out of Westland. They said over and over again in the meeting, their first concert is equity. Option 5 is the least equitable on the table. As the CCES representative angrily said said "it iis downright offensive".

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.

I actually think 5 is the best.

If you think that MCPS is going to put all of the poor kids in the cluster in the same middle school, you haven't been paying attention.

I don't have any delusions that they will choose 5. Just stating what I think seems the most logical.

I'm another 5 supporter. It's efficient. Yes, you end up with different demographics at the two schools, but that's just a natural by-product of geography. There are different demos in Maine and Florida, but the US doesn't try to merge them together (only a half serious comment to illustrate the point).

Demographics in the US are never just a product of geography. They are the product of decades of racial covenants, redlining of mortgage loans and similar forms of discrimination.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.

I actually think 5 is the best.

If you think that MCPS is going to put all of the poor kids in the cluster in the same middle school, you haven't been paying attention.

Technically all the poor kids go to the same middle school now don't they? And why is creating a desirable highly rated and functioning middle school that will draw more upwardly mobile people to the area a bad thing? The new school will still be above avg and attract people who look to avoid Silver Spring schools and Westland might finally make a run at Pyle in terms of performance. Combined with logistically what is best for most everybody and minimal bussing it seems like a no brainier to me.

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Absolutely agree. I am closer to Bethedsa than Chevy Chase and have CCES kids. In a perfect world, my kid could walk just a few blocks to BE instead of being bused to RHPS. The new middle with the NCC friends is a far better situation for the RHPS kids under the current configuration and just as close as Westland. You don't get closer to Westland in the RHPS cluster than where I live so there's no way it's onerous on anyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.

I actually think 5 is the best.

If you think that MCPS is going to put all of the poor kids in the cluster in the same middle school, you haven't been paying attention.

I don't have any delusions that they will choose 5. Just stating what I think seems the most logical.

I'm another 5 supporter. It's efficient. Yes, you end up with different demographics at the two schools, but that's just a natural by-product of geography. There are different demos in Maine and Florida, but the US doesn't try to merge them together (only a half serious comment to illustrate the point).

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Wouldn't there be school bus service from Chevy Chase to the new middle school?

Yes, I am sure there would be. But I would end up going there for sports events, parent teacher night, times when kid misses bus, etc. etc.

You want them to base the school assignments on whether you are used to driving in that direction? You sound like a 5 year old.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.

I actually think 5 is the best.

If you think that MCPS is going to put all of the poor kids in the cluster in the same middle school, you haven't been paying attention.

I don't have any delusions that they will choose 5. Just stating what I think seems the most logical.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Wouldn't there be school bus service from Chevy Chase to the new middle school?

Yes, I am sure there would be. But I would end up going there for sports events, parent teacher night, times when kid misses bus, etc. etc.

How often do those things happen?

My kid's middle school is also in a direction I never drive otherwise. We have managed somehow.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.

I actually think 5 is the best.

If you think that MCPS is going to put all of the poor kids in the cluster in the same middle school, you haven't been paying attention.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Wouldn't there be school bus service from Chevy Chase to the new middle school?

Yes, I am sure there would be. But I would end up going there for sports events, parent teacher night, times when kid misses bus, etc. etc.

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Wouldn't there be school bus service from Chevy Chase to the new middle school?

Which page is the list of options on please?

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Anonymous wrote:There is pretty much no one going to RHPS now for whom it would be a burden to go to the new MS. For most people it would be closer, for some it might be halfway and for a few it might be slightly closer to Westland, but I don't see how going to the new school would be a burden.

Totally disagree. I live in Chevy Chase and the new MS site is really far away from my house and in a direction I would never drive otherwise.

Exactly, we really need to unlink NCC and CC ideally which is why there are options like #3.

I actually think 5 is the best.