Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?

I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values.
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I don’t think that’s right. You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago. Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t. If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact. But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward. Never more disappointed in MCPS.

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it. It makes no sense.

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.

Or, with all due respect, you are in denial about MCPS and the Board and their intentions. There was a time when this was exactly what they wanted. We’ll see what the current board says/does.

The board needs to read the room about DEI. There is a lot of appetite for DEI-based lawsuits right now and I can imagine the federal government trying to get involved.

I hope they don’t want to be the new test case for interpretations of what is permitted for DEI.

We can’t be Harvard here. They just spent a bunch of money on the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court that, tbh, for all the good intentions we don’t stand a snow balls chance in you know where of winning. That’s our taxpayer dollars that could be better spent on things like … providing additional resources to Kennedy students.

As long as they don't explicitly use race as a tie-breaker or actively seek segregation, both SCOTUS precedent and other case law gives wide latitude to school districts to draw their own boundaries.

In fact, when the upcounty boundary folks tried to sue, they were forced to do so on the basis of an improper meeting.

Basically, I don't think the legal avenues would work out here, assuming MCPS does its due diligence in terms of public consultation.

You might be correct, but the current SCOTUS is more hostile to DEI efforts, so I could see it going either way.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that most concerns me is that, with all the options, they'd move kids around right in the middle of middle school.

If I read it correctly, a rising 7th grader in the 2027-28 school year who lives within a shifting boundary would be forced to move to their new boundary-assigned school. It's a recipe for disaster for those kids.

First, the kids would not be alone. They would be with many peers.

Second, kids move and change schools all of the time. They will be OK.

Last, someone has to move first, in order to change boundaries.

My child is in the class that would move schools in 10th grade. Based on the maps provided, most of these options would mean that he and his peers would be moving to different high schools. I also don't understand how this would work for students who have selected to participate in programs through DCC choice in 9th grade. Would they then have to move to a newly zoned school in 10th?

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?

I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values.
- agent

I don’t think that’s right. You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago. Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t. If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact. But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward. Never more disappointed in MCPS.

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it. It makes no sense.

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.

Or, with all due respect, you are in denial about MCPS and the Board and their intentions. There was a time when this was exactly what they wanted. We’ll see what the current board says/does.

The board needs to read the room about DEI. There is a lot of appetite for DEI-based lawsuits right now and I can imagine the federal government trying to get involved.

I hope they don’t want to be the new test case for interpretations of what is permitted for DEI.

We can’t be Harvard here. They just spent a bunch of money on the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court that, tbh, for all the good intentions we don’t stand a snow balls chance in you know where of winning. That’s our taxpayer dollars that could be better spent on things like … providing additional resources to Kennedy students.

As long as they don't explicitly use race as a tie-breaker or actively seek segregation, both SCOTUS precedent and other case law gives wide latitude to school districts to draw their own boundaries.

In fact, when the upcounty boundary folks tried to sue, they were forced to do so on the basis of an improper meeting.

Basically, I don't think the legal avenues would work out here, assuming MCPS does its due diligence in terms of public consultation.

That upcounty suit was prior to the Trump admin and it's laser focus on DEI. If MCPS chooses option 3 it will be pretty easy to illustrate that this was the option focused on demongraphics/DEI.

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?

I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values.
- agent

I don’t think that’s right. You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago. Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t. If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact. But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward. Never more disappointed in MCPS.

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it. It makes no sense.

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.

Or, with all due respect, you are in denial about MCPS and the Board and their intentions. There was a time when this was exactly what they wanted. We’ll see what the current board says/does.

The board needs to read the room about DEI. There is a lot of appetite for DEI-based lawsuits right now and I can imagine the federal government trying to get involved.

I hope they don’t want to be the new test case for interpretations of what is permitted for DEI.

We can’t be Harvard here. They just spent a bunch of money on the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court that, tbh, for all the good intentions we don’t stand a snow balls chance in you know where of winning. That’s our taxpayer dollars that could be better spent on things like … providing additional resources to Kennedy students.

As long as they don't explicitly use race as a tie-breaker or actively seek segregation, both SCOTUS precedent and other case law gives wide latitude to school districts to draw their own boundaries.

In fact, when the upcounty boundary folks tried to sue, they were forced to do so on the basis of an improper meeting.

Basically, I don't think the legal avenues would work out here, assuming MCPS does its due diligence in terms of public consultation.

You might be correct, but the current SCOTUS is more hostile to DEI efforts, so I could see it going either way.

It's not just SCOTUS - it's the entire administration. My company just had to certify that we don't engage in "illegal DEI"

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Guys they built 2 new high schools. Some kids are going to have to move schools. It will be disruptive, but it's public education. Your kids will still be receiving a public education.

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?

I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values.
- agent

I don’t think that’s right. You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago. Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t. If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact. But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward. Never more disappointed in MCPS.

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it. It makes no sense.

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.

Or, with all due respect, you are in denial about MCPS and the Board and their intentions. There was a time when this was exactly what they wanted. We’ll see what the current board says/does.

The board needs to read the room about DEI. There is a lot of appetite for DEI-based lawsuits right now and I can imagine the federal government trying to get involved.

I hope they don’t want to be the new test case for interpretations of what is permitted for DEI.

We can’t be Harvard here. They just spent a bunch of money on the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court that, tbh, for all the good intentions we don’t stand a snow balls chance in you know where of winning. That’s our taxpayer dollars that could be better spent on things like … providing additional resources to Kennedy students.

As long as they don't explicitly use race as a tie-breaker or actively seek segregation, both SCOTUS precedent and other case law gives wide latitude to school districts to draw their own boundaries.

In fact, when the upcounty boundary folks tried to sue, they were forced to do so on the basis of an improper meeting.

Basically, I don't think the legal avenues would work out here, assuming MCPS does its due diligence in terms of public consultation.

You might be correct, but the current SCOTUS is more hostile to DEI efforts, so I could see it going either way.

It's not just SCOTUS - it's the entire administration. My company just had to certify that we don't engage in "illegal DEI"

Ok, but SCOTUS would be the one to ultimately decide the legality of the suits we were discussing.

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So option 3 is t happening, right? Bc that would take us from being able to walk to school to an hour bus ride. It would totally upend our lives.

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Anonymous wrote:So option 3 is t happening, right? Bc that would take us from being able to walk to school to an hour bus ride. It would totally upend our lives.

Well they are described as "initial options" so it seems highly unlikely any of them will be implemented in their entirety. It also doesn't seem like they tried to balance any priorities, and I think the final result will be more balanced.

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Anonymous wrote:What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?

I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values.
- agent

I don’t think that’s right. You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago. Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t. If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact. But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward. Never more disappointed in MCPS.

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it. It makes no sense.

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.

Or, with all due respect, you are in denial about MCPS and the Board and their intentions. There was a time when this was exactly what they wanted. We’ll see what the current board says/does.

The board needs to read the room about DEI. There is a lot of appetite for DEI-based lawsuits right now and I can imagine the federal government trying to get involved.

I hope they don’t want to be the new test case for interpretations of what is permitted for DEI.

We can’t be Harvard here. They just spent a bunch of money on the lawsuit that went to the Supreme Court that, tbh, for all the good intentions we don’t stand a snow balls chance in you know where of winning. That’s our taxpayer dollars that could be better spent on things like … providing additional resources to Kennedy students.

As long as they don't explicitly use race as a tie-breaker or actively seek segregation, both SCOTUS precedent and other case law gives wide latitude to school districts to draw their own boundaries.

In fact, when the upcounty boundary folks tried to sue, they were forced to do so on the basis of an improper meeting.

Basically, I don't think the legal avenues would work out here, assuming MCPS does its due diligence in terms of public consultation.

You might be correct, but the current SCOTUS is more hostile to DEI efforts, so I could see it going either way.

It's not just SCOTUS - it's the entire administration. My company just had to certify that we don't engage in "illegal DEI"

Ok, but SCOTUS would be the one to ultimately decide the legality of the suits we were discussing.

Right. I feel like folks need to retake US Government if they are conflating the Executive and the Judiciary, particularly when there is established case law based on the US Constitution.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

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And in today's budget climate, they can't afford to be spending more on busses, fuel, or bus drivers.

See 11:42, other options are coming

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

But is that bussing limited to that small area? What option 3 is proposing seems far more extensive in terms of the number of kids getting bussed across county.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

For those who don’t know. Also want to add that for Chevy Chase kids CCES is a short walk from both sides of Connecticut where there is a crossing guard. Once they get to CCES from RH, they all walk. Same for Rosemary Hills neighborhood and the vast majority of the Silver Spring kids, Rosemary Hills is walkable. Both schools literally in the backyards of their students respective neighborhoods. Neighborhood schools were not prioritized. And this was in 1983 before DEI. Didn’t matter. Now the entire county will get the same treatment. As a result most of Chevy Chase families send their kids to private schools. Very Good chance of Option 3 happening. There is precedent.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

But is that bussing limited to that small area? What option 3 is proposing seems far more extensive in terms of the number of kids getting bussed across county.

No, it’s 4 miles away. Not a small area. Kids pass by two elementary schools to get to their elementary school. Many of the option 3 schools now would travel far fewer miles.

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Anonymous wrote:The Rosemary Hills/Chevy Chase Elementary schools already have a mix of students from affluent and less affluent homes and a mix of races from Chevy Chase and Silver Springs. Under option 3, instead of these kids attending the same middle school (Silver Creek) and high school (BCC) they will divide this
cohort of students, who have been together for 6 years, so that they can increase diversity rates at Whitman and Blair. The BCC cluster schools already has diversity. Option 3 has Silver Spring kids being bussed past BCC to get to Whitman and Chevy Chase kids who live within 1-2 miles from BCC bussed 6 miles to Blair.

Rosemary Hills students split into two elementary schools (North Bethesda and Chevy. Chase), and option 3 ends up splitting students again.

Agree for this particular group of Rosemary Hills kids, it is completely unfair and their cluster needs to be taken off the table. They were the first and only bussed students for years and deserve stability. The diversity by bussing is already there and has been for decades. Pick on someone else.

This has been happening for many years to other families.

Rosemary Hills among was the very first (in the country) to do cross county bussing. Those familes have been dealing with this since 1983. Kingergartners in Chevy Chase have been bussed miles away from home to Silver Spring and then split away from their friends in 2nd grade for diversity purposes. Then the opposite happens for the Silver Spring kids when they are bussed out of theiir neighborhoods to CCES in third grade. My kids bus ride was 45 minutes each way every day. They’d get off the bus with motion sickness. The bus driver also lost my kindergartener and other kids when they all got off on the wrong stop in Silver Spring. They were found walking down the road. You all think MCPS isn’t serious about option 3? Think again! Rosemary Hills is their model.

For those who don’t know. Also want to add that for Chevy Chase kids CCES is a short walk from both sides of Connecticut where there is a crossing guard. Once they get to CCES from RH, they all walk. Same for Rosemary Hills neighborhood and the vast majority of the Silver Spring kids, Rosemary Hills is walkable. Both schools literally in the backyards of their students respective neighborhoods. Neighborhood schools were not prioritized. And this was in 1983 before DEI. Didn’t matter. Now the entire county will get the same treatment. As a result most of Chevy Chase families send their kids to private schools. Very Good chance of Option 3 happening. There is precedent.

Doubt it.