Anonymous wrote:Pay no attention to the pp complaining about bis times to RHPS. She has been ranting on this board for a year or two at least, although my impression was she was refusing to send her children there so perhaps she is softening. Loads of us inBethesda and CC MD send our children to RHPS and are big fans of the school.

Anonymous wrote:Personally I worry less Bout the short rides to RHPS and more about the long rides to Westland. Which is why I'm a big fan of the new middle school.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is going to go to RH and the middle school. As if I wasn't displeased enough with the racist experiment known as RH. Time and time again, court decisions from the Supreme Court on down have dictated that school admissions be color blind, yet the County has commonly bragged about how they assign little children from wide and far to attend RH simply for reasons of skin color or whether they get free and reduced meals. For example, my kid has 5 elementary schools closer to our house in Bethesda than RH (some of them half as far) yet she is forced to double her commutes by going to RH so that she can accommodate this experiment.

It'll be interesting to see how disparate impact measures taken on by the state board of education are implemented at RH and the new middle school. Disparate impact means that public school administrators in Maryland are being forced to take an assailants race into consideration (in other words racism) when determining how to punish them.

It's just gets uglier and uglier.

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Near Oakland Terrace and Rock View elementary schools. THese areas area also less expensive. You may also want to try the area near the new (and gorgeous) Flora M. Singer leementary (noty far from Forest Glen metro,)

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the current plan for the middle school, both of which would pull lots of kids from lower income parts of Silver Spring and Kensington.

OK, please. I have a child at RHPS. The parts of Kensington that are in the RHPS/NCCES configuration currently are Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View. They are by no stretch of the imagination "lower income" and are arguably the nicest areas in Kensington and are nicer neighborhoods than many in Bethesda. The parts of Silver Spring are the neighborhood immediately surrounding Rosemary Hills, where every house costs more than $450K, and a few nearby apartment complexes where I assume incomes are lower. It's true that there will be a boundary study and the outcome is uncertain at this point, but there is no proposal to move wide swaths of other parts of Silver Spring and Kensington into the already overcrowded B-CC cluster. The kids that OP is complaining about are already at RHPS, which is a fantastic school with an incredibly dedicated staff and involved parent community.

Yeah, Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View are real low income neighborhoods - NOT. Most of my neighbors are either lawyers, doctors, research scientists or economists. I don't think the OP would like her kids going to school with the likes of our kids. The people who moved to these neighborhoods appreciate large lot sizes, the proximity to the Beltway, downtown and several Metro stations, the BCC cluster and yes, diversity. Therefore I don't think you'd like living in the part of Kensington (Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View) served by the BCC cluster.

I too live in lowly slummy Kensington, and not even the nice part. Our neighborhood is diverse, and chock-a-block with teachers, Fed employees, Fed lawyers, artists, and writers, etc. Wouldn't trade it for the world. I suggest you move out of ChCh if you don't want to associate with anyone from SS or Kensington.

Can you let me know what the slummy (ha ha) neighborhoods are in Kensington - sounds like something we would like to consider. I would love to have artists and writers and diversity if my neighborhood and I'm a fed so not huge income. Thanks.

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the current plan for the middle school, both of which would pull lots of kids from lower income parts of Silver Spring and Kensington.

OK, please. I have a child at RHPS. The parts of Kensington that are in the RHPS/NCCES configuration currently are Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View. They are by no stretch of the imagination "lower income" and are arguably the nicest areas in Kensington and are nicer neighborhoods than many in Bethesda. The parts of Silver Spring are the neighborhood immediately surrounding Rosemary Hills, where every house costs more than $450K, and a few nearby apartment complexes where I assume incomes are lower. It's true that there will be a boundary study and the outcome is uncertain at this point, but there is no proposal to move wide swaths of other parts of Silver Spring and Kensington into the already overcrowded B-CC cluster. The kids that OP is complaining about are already at RHPS, which is a fantastic school with an incredibly dedicated staff and involved parent community.

Yeah, Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View are real low income neighborhoods - NOT. Most of my neighbors are either lawyers, doctors, research scientists or economists. I don't think the OP would like her kids going to school with the likes of our kids. The people who moved to these neighborhoods appreciate large lot sizes, the proximity to the Beltway, downtown and several Metro stations, the BCC cluster and yes, diversity. Therefore I don't think you'd like living in the part of Kensington (Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View) served by the BCC cluster.

I too live in lowly slummy Kensington, and not even the nice part. Our neighborhood is diverse, and chock-a-block with teachers, Fed employees, Fed lawyers, artists, and writers, etc. Wouldn't trade it for the world. I suggest you move out of ChCh if you don't want to associate with anyone from SS or Kensington.

Can you let me know what the slummy (ha ha) neighborhoods are in Kensington - sounds like something we would like to consider. I would love to have artists and writers and diversity if my neighborhood and I'm a fed so not huge income. Thanks.

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the current plan for the middle school, both of which would pull lots of kids from lower income parts of Silver Spring and Kensington.

OK, please. I have a child at RHPS. The parts of Kensington that are in the RHPS/NCCES configuration currently are Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View. They are by no stretch of the imagination "lower income" and are arguably the nicest areas in Kensington and are nicer neighborhoods than many in Bethesda. The parts of Silver Spring are the neighborhood immediately surrounding Rosemary Hills, where every house costs more than $450K, and a few nearby apartment complexes where I assume incomes are lower. It's true that there will be a boundary study and the outcome is uncertain at this point, but there is no proposal to move wide swaths of other parts of Silver Spring and Kensington into the already overcrowded B-CC cluster. The kids that OP is complaining about are already at RHPS, which is a fantastic school with an incredibly dedicated staff and involved parent community.

Yeah, Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View are real low income neighborhoods - NOT. Most of my neighbors are either lawyers, doctors, research scientists or economists. I don't think the OP would like her kids going to school with the likes of our kids. The people who moved to these neighborhoods appreciate large lot sizes, the proximity to the Beltway, downtown and several Metro stations, the BCC cluster and yes, diversity. Therefore I don't think you'd like living in the part of Kensington (Rock Creek Hills and Chevy Chase View) served by the BCC cluster.

I too live in lowly slummy Kensington, and not even the nice part. Our neighborhood is diverse, and chock-a-block with teachers, Fed employees, Fed lawyers, artists, and writers, etc. Wouldn't trade it for the world. I suggest you move out of ChCh if you don't want to associate with anyone from SS or Kensington.

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Anonymous wrote:The PTA for the elementary schools in the mini-cluster used to have a pin that said "OPC" - it stood for "Other People's Children" as in we care not just for our kids but for all the kids at our schools. So, OP - look at the statistics and have a little conversation about what you want for your child - not with dcurbanmom community - but your spouse and family. If you value the experience of sending your child to a highly successful school that is also diverse, then purchase a home that will probably be in the boundary for the new middle school. If, you are for whatever reason not comfortable with socio-economic and racial diversity (in elementary school or middle school) then just don't buy in the downcounty area.

If it's a new school, how can it already be highly successful?

The fact that you'd call a school that hasn't even opened yet a success tells me pretty strongly that you're just pontificating based on your own views of social justice. As long as a school has the right SES and racial diversity for you, it's a guaranteed success. No thanks. There's enough of that mindset in MCPS already.