Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

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Isn’t it illegal to zone for race?

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Anonymous wrote:Woodlin is mostly white and UMC ao that does not help. Woodlin should def. stay at Einstein and in the DCC.

No, Woodlin is only 34% white and it has an Ever FARMS rate of 45%.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodlin is mostly white and UMC ao that does not help. Woodlin should def. stay at Einstein and in the DCC.

Woodlin is a Focus school as of the upcoming school year, so I don’t think that’s quite right.

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The point is the boundaries need to change because there is too much segregation. Some people on here like the segregation and want to keep it that way but that is not going to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Garrett Park and Tilden will get $300k cheaper soon.

Pretty much.
Caveat: Options 2 and 4 send the south side of Garrett Park to WJ ( the handful of homes on the south side of Strathmore). Town of GP, as small as it is, getting broken up.

Please! The 300K post was most likely trolling and you actually agree with that alarmist nonsense.

First of all, WJ today is not some amazing school that drives property values. It is weaker than other W schools and not much better than, for example, Richard Montgomery that has similar demographics to Woodward options 1,2 and 4.

Second, it is not all about the quality of high schools. Garret Park and Tilden will still have mostly the same teachers and same kids going there. So if parents were happy with what they were getting with these two schools before, there is no reason to suddenly completely turn their backs. Even more importantly, Garret Park and Tilden neighborhoods are very safe and walkable, a rare combination that will not change with the new school.

Every responsible new home buyer in the last two years knew that the rezoning is coming and that for some neighborhoods (for example Old Georgetown Village and Timberlawn) it will be a miracle not to end up in the new HS. And yet, home prices in that area went up by more than 15%.

You are delusional. There are safe and walkable neighborhoods zoned to Crown, Blair, Einstein, and plenty of others, and they’re worth less than GP and Tilden—even those that are closer to DC. They can be up to $400k cheaper, and the reason is clearly a difference in schools. People paid for a W in GP and Tilden, and if they are zoned to a school with QO or current Einstein demographics performance, their property values will reflect that. In some options, homes zoned to Einstein may end up with better property values than those zoned to Woodward.

Many of the newer or remolded homes are now over a million and the lower priced ones are very small on small lots. They aren’t cheaper anymore.

Nothing is cheap any more

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Anonymous wrote:The point is the boundaries need to change because there is too much segregation. Some people on here like the segregation and want to keep it that way but that is not going to happen.

Let them have their segregation. Most of us don’t care nd provide more offerings in the dcc and other schools. Get rid of the principals holding kids back.

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Anonymous wrote:The point is the boundaries need to change because there is too much segregation. Some people on here like the segregation and want to keep it that way but that is not going to happen.

Let them have their segregation. Most of us don’t care nd provide more offerings in the dcc and other schools. Get rid of the principals holding kids back.

It's not the principals holding kids back. It's the kids parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodlin is mostly white and UMC ao that does not help. Woodlin should def. stay at Einstein and in the DCC.

No, Woodlin is only 34% white and it has an Ever FARMS rate of 45%.

That is low compared with other DCC schools

[Anonymous]

What’s low is farms rate at Sligo Creek ES considering the neighborhood. Not sure what boundary study they follow.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it illegal to zone for race?

School districts get around that all the time when zoning for income levels and other socio economic data for particular neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:The point is the boundaries need to change because there is too much segregation. Some people on here like the segregation and want to keep it that way but that is not going to happen.

No the boundaries are supposed to change bc of overcrowding.

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What’s the “best” FARMS rate that would satisfy the socialists?

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Anonymous wrote:What’s low is farms rate at Sligo Creek ES considering the neighborhood. Not sure what boundary study they follow.

Agree that this was a missed opportunity to review ES boundaries.

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Anonymous wrote:People in Garrett Park are more hipster and liberal, I don’t think they’re going to mind the demographics of Woodward.

Oh we mind. It's all we talk about at our pool. (Privilege)

The folks in Garrett Park should worry more about advocating for their school than picketing against "Kings."

And property values crashing and education quality suffering because our high school is now an enclave of San Salvador