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

[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.

Yes, drug dealing and shootings are what QO is known for...

[Anonymous]

The HS cluster is one thing…I think the value of the houses would go down if the HS is now QO vs Wootton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes, drug dealing and shootings are what QO is known for...

Lol. Yes that PP is just a troll. Clearly unfamiliar with that area.

About what might happen to house prices—Kentlands prices are high and it’s QO. Also many nice houses in that catchment. Safe diverse area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

"white girl". No one who went to Frost talks like this.

MAGA troll.

[Anonymous]

OP Dufief is a great school. And will still be a great school with redistricting.

QO is a fine HS and will be even with redistricting.

The houses are old in Dufief I would be more worried about that.

And traffic coming on 28 and Muddy Branch because John Hopkins is going to build there.

Look at homes off of Aldersgate or St James in Potomac. Homes are similar age as Dufief but don't have to worry about the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

"white girl". No one who went to Frost talks like this.

MAGA troll.

Ridiculous. I was an Obama campaign worker and donor. I mentioned my race in case somebody would bring up something to blame minorities. There are definitely stereotypes about who gets physical at school. And I've seen the chatter on DCUM about what goes on with student violence at BCC and Walter Johnson these days.

I would have been Class of '86 at Wooton. Mark Coffman ended up being student body president during high school. I had Madam Arsenault for 7th and 8th grade French. If you were in the room with me, I could dig out my yearbook and find you more fun facts.

My mom talked about how wonderful the schools were going to be. Instead, I got partially open classrooms in some subjects (quite distracting), incorrect math placement which screwed me over until college, peer graded assignments in some gifted classes (why?), and a punch in the face. I met a few nice kids but that didn't make up for the snobs from Potomac. I also remember there were kids stressing about college in 7th grade. That was the year I learned that Duke existed. Also MCPS sent me to take the SAT through the JHU CTY Program. They didn't do that in my district in PA. The strivery pressure was already happening there in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP Dufief is a great school. And will still be a great school with redistricting.

QO is a fine HS and will be even with redistricting.

The houses are old in Dufief I would be more worried about that.

And traffic coming on 28 and Muddy Branch because John Hopkins is going to build there.

Look at homes off of Aldersgate or St James in Potomac. Homes are similar age as Dufief but don't have to worry about the schools.

Aren't those homes a lot more expensive?

Looking at homes sold in the last year, two homes around Aldersgate and St James sold for about 910k and 1.1 million.

Around Dufief, it looks like it's reasonable to be able to expect to get a home for around $850k to $950k. There are some homes higher but a good number around that range.

And I kind of remember this being the price difference back when we were shopping for homes, where the Dufief area was a bit more affordable.

We've only stopped by the neighborhood for soccer games, where there are two large soccer fields by the school. Seems like a nice neighborhood. Has a lot of people taking walks there and has neighbhorhood kids trying to sell drinks and snacks during the soccer games.

[Anonymous]

With the boundary changes, how would it work for the current 7th graders - they are going to Frost now, but if Dufief gets reassigned, some 7th graders will go on to Wootton and some go to QO from Frost?

[Anonymous]

Quince Orchard HS (9–12)
Lakelands Park MS (6–8) (shared with Northwest Cluster)*
Brown Station ES (HS, pre-K–5)
Rachel Carson ES (pre-K–5)

Ridgeview MS (6–8)
Diamond ES (K–5) (shared with Northwest Cluster)*
Fields Road ES (pre-K–5)
Jones Lane ES (K–5)
Thurgood Marshall ES (K–5)


This is the current makeup of QO. So Fields Rd and Brown Station would be replaced with Dufief and??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quince Orchard HS (9–12)
Lakelands Park MS (6–8) (shared with Northwest Cluster)*
Brown Station ES (HS, pre-K–5)
Rachel Carson ES (pre-K–5)

Ridgeview MS (6–8)
Diamond ES (K–5) (shared with Northwest Cluster)*
Fields Road ES (pre-K–5)
Jones Lane ES (K–5)
Thurgood Marshall ES (K–5)


This is the current makeup of QO. So Fields Rd and Brown Station would be replaced with Dufief and??

That seems unlikely