Dufief ES cluster - should I avoid buying a home because of potential rezoning?

[Anonymous]

Trying to move in to MD and this area seems to tick off most check boxes. But concerned about the rezoning that is to come. Is Dufief/RF/Wootton cluster a high risk?

[Anonymous]

We will be voting every school, county and state member from janitor to the governor if they rezone dufief

[Anonymous]

Yes, I think so. I would wait.

[Anonymous]

Wait a few weeks at least to see the next batch of boundary option maps.

[Anonymous]

I lived in a Dufief zone neighborhood in 1980-1981.

It was kind of a suburban nowheresville.

Robert Frost was a mean and snobby place for a chill girl from the West Coast. I sometimes find current parents on DCUM whose kids got the same vibe there recently.

I don't think it would be bad if the middle and high school were remixed to make them more socieconomically diverse. There's more to life than bragging about your proximity to Potomac. That was the big deal when I lived there. Westleigh was just called Gaithersburg then. Now I understand it is North Potomac.

[Anonymous]

I would wait

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We will be voting every school, county and state member from janitor to the governor if they rezone dufief

Why? Your child could walk to QO if rezoned. Don't you care about neighborhood schools???

[Anonymous]

Find a different school system, this one is imploding

[Anonymous]

Stay classy, MoCo!

[Anonymous]

The elementary school is a real hidden gem that would very likely be worth whatever rezoning risk you would face. Class sizes are as small or smaller than many private schools in the area.

In any case, if it gets rezoned to QO it isn't the same QO that is there now. Taking out Fields Road and Brown Station and replacing with Darnestown and Dufief would completely change the socioeconomic background of the student body.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I agree with previous poster, some of the proposals had QO going from like a 30% FARMS rate to 10% if you care about that kind of thing.

I don't know about the other poster saying it's in walking distance to QO. Seems kind of far to me.

We're personally waiting before deciding if we should move or not and have been passing on some opportunities of potential homes over the summer. Our first choice is to not move.

The next round of proposals should come out in the next several weeks and should give a better idea of the likely changes.

[Anonymous]

OP here - my kids are in K and PreK now. So ES and MS are more important to us and HS is a few years down the lane. Really confused, thinking of waiting but again wondering what it would look like if we moved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived in a Dufief zone neighborhood in 1980-1981.

It was kind of a suburban nowheresville.

Robert Frost was a mean and snobby place for a chill girl from the West Coast. I sometimes find current parents on DCUM whose kids got the same vibe there recently.

I don't think it would be bad if the middle and high school were remixed to make them more socieconomically diverse. There's more to life than bragging about your proximity to Potomac. That was the big deal when I lived there. Westleigh was just called Gaithersburg then. Now I understand it is North Potomac.

If youre so chill why not move to Hyattsville? Some of us work hard for the rewards of hard work, including not living next to shootings and drug deals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I agree with previous poster, some of the proposals had QO going from like a 30% FARMS rate to 10% if you care about that kind of thing.

I don't know about the other poster saying it's in walking distance to QO. Seems kind of far to me.

We're personally waiting before deciding if we should move or not and have been passing on some opportunities of potential homes over the summer. Our first choice is to not move.

The next round of proposals should come out in the next several weeks and should give a better idea of the likely changes.

QO is two miles from Dufief. I used to walk 2.5 miles to get home from school—it is quite a walk but doable.

Whether to move—if you want to wait until the dust settles, it would be in three years when the regional program has been up and running.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in a Dufief zone neighborhood in 1980-1981.

It was kind of a suburban nowheresville.

Robert Frost was a mean and snobby place for a chill girl from the West Coast. I sometimes find current parents on DCUM whose kids got the same vibe there recently.

I don't think it would be bad if the middle and high school were remixed to make them more socieconomically diverse. There's more to life than bragging about your proximity to Potomac. That was the big deal when I lived there. Westleigh was just called Gaithersburg then. Now I understand it is North Potomac.

If youre so chill why not move to Hyattsville? Some of us work hard for the rewards of hard work, including not living next to shootings and drug deals.

I'm long gone from MoCo. I live somewhere like old Bethesda used to be in another state. I did spend 8 years as an adult living in MoCo and working in DC but I moved away in part so I wouldn't have to go broke affording a house and raising kids in the Bethesda area. My HHI's only 90th percentile for the entire freaking US, so I was too DCUM poor to raise kids in the suburbs closer in to DC.

I'm not kidding about how nasty Robert Frost was. I got punched in the face during outdoor gym class by a white girl I'd never previously spoken to (I am also a white girl.) She and her friends decided to pick on me, and when they wouldn't leave me alone, I called her a rude name and she punched me straight in the jaw. One of the friends was rich...later heard that girl got sent to Catholic school to straighten out her act. Didn't know about the girl who hit me. They got suspended. Fortunately my family was moving within a few weeks since my dad did not like his MoCo job and decided to relocate away. I still follow the news because it was one of the crappier times in my life and I'm interested to know if it's getting better or worse.

Dufief was a nice walkable school for my sister. But we both were happier in our new district in Pennsylvania.