Concerned about buying in WJ cluster because of re-zoning

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whitman and BCC should be combined with 2 HS from DCC to form a new consortium.

Why? Do you really want every kid in this area to spend 3+ hours on a bus stuck in traffic? We're a BCC family on the far east side of the zone, and the commute to Westland is ridiculous -- an hour each way. And that's still from Chevy Chase. It's really not worth it; my kid dropped extracurricular stuff because it would have meant a 1.5 hour ride home on an activity bus. There are better ways to improve integration and academic outcomes than bussing kids all over creation.

PP wasn’t serious. It was just to get a rise out of anxious parents.

MoCo has a dwindling number of decent schools. They’ll put WJ in play if they have to, but they aren’t going to mess with the crown jewels .

Agree here. WJ is pretty much gone, but BOE is never going to touch Whitman and Churchill.

Whitman boundaries will change, but not Churchill's during this process.

[Anonymous]

WJ will only lose headcount to Woodward. This is because it will be overcrowded. It should have no impact on its test averages which is the superficial means by which some people gauge school quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WJ will only lose headcount to Woodward. This is because it will be overcrowded. It should have no impact on its test averages which is the superficial means by which some people gauge school quality.

Why wouldn’t both Woodward and WJ consist of a mixture of current WJ and DCC students? The schools couldn’t be closer to each other and, in fact, were once a combined school in the Woodward building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whitman and BCC should be combined with 2 HS from DCC to form a new consortium.

Why? Do you really want every kid in this area to spend 3+ hours on a bus stuck in traffic? We're a BCC family on the far east side of the zone, and the commute to Westland is ridiculous -- an hour each way. And that's still from Chevy Chase. It's really not worth it; my kid dropped extracurricular stuff because it would have meant a 1.5 hour ride home on an activity bus. There are better ways to improve integration and academic outcomes than bussing kids all over creation.

PP wasn’t serious. It was just to get a rise out of anxious parents.

MoCo has a dwindling number of decent schools. They’ll put WJ in play if they have to, but they aren’t going to mess with the crown jewels .

Agree here. WJ is pretty much gone, but BOE is never going to touch Whitman and Churchill.

Whitman boundaries will change, but not Churchill's during this process.

Whtman’s boundaries will change in a way that won’t hurt its scores. It will add a BCC elementary school (probably Westbrook) and give up one of its elementary schools (maybe Bradley Hills).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whitman and BCC should be combined with 2 HS from DCC to form a new consortium.

Why? Do you really want every kid in this area to spend 3+ hours on a bus stuck in traffic? We're a BCC family on the far east side of the zone, and the commute to Westland is ridiculous -- an hour each way. And that's still from Chevy Chase. It's really not worth it; my kid dropped extracurricular stuff because it would have meant a 1.5 hour ride home on an activity bus. There are better ways to improve integration and academic outcomes than bussing kids all over creation.

PP wasn’t serious. It was just to get a rise out of anxious parents.

MoCo has a dwindling number of decent schools. They’ll put WJ in play if they have to, but they aren’t going to mess with the crown jewels .

Agree here. WJ is pretty much gone, but BOE is never going to touch Whitman and Churchill.

Whitman boundaries will change, but not Churchill's during this process.

That's true. In all these boundaries changes, WJ current zone will go down in test scores. Others may be impacted very little as far as test scores are concerned.
Whtman’s boundaries will change in a way that won’t hurt its scores. It will add a BCC elementary school (probably Westbrook) and give up one of its elementary schools (maybe Bradley Hills).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To all the people who believe they’re not racist but just “don’t want to lose money” on their home. Consider that the exact same thing could have been (and was) said by all the whites decades ago who left neighborhoods or started avoiding neighborhoods as soon as a black family moved in. There goes the neighborhood! They weren’t “racist” of course, they just saw that black people moving in meant the area would be decrease in value as a result so best to pack up and leave. Perhaps we all have to be willing to have our finances adversely affected a bit to change our society in ways we (liberals) claim to want?

Your solution is to have buyers overpay in WJ to not appear racist? Bravo for linking people not wanting to lose money in housing to being racist.

You’re not “overpaying.” That you think so is the problem. If your only gauge is your home value, then, yeah, you’re enabling racism and no different from the overt racist white flighters of the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the people who believe they’re not racist but just “don’t want to lose money” on their home. Consider that the exact same thing could have been (and was) said by all the whites decades ago who left neighborhoods or started avoiding neighborhoods as soon as a black family moved in. There goes the neighborhood! They weren’t “racist” of course, they just saw that black people moving in meant the area would be decrease in value as a result so best to pack up and leave. Perhaps we all have to be willing to have our finances adversely affected a bit to change our society in ways we (liberals) claim to want?

Your solution is to have buyers overpay in WJ to not appear racist? Bravo for linking people not wanting to lose money in housing to being racist.

You’re not “overpaying.” That you think so is the problem. If your only gauge is your home value, then, yeah, you’re enabling racism and no different from the overt racist white flighters of the past.

Not the PP, but you are not making any sense here. Why anyone want to pay 800K knowingly that prices will be 700K after school is not in WJ? Also you think it's racism? Get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the people who believe they’re not racist but just “don’t want to lose money” on their home. Consider that the exact same thing could have been (and was) said by all the whites decades ago who left neighborhoods or started avoiding neighborhoods as soon as a black family moved in. There goes the neighborhood! They weren’t “racist” of course, they just saw that black people moving in meant the area would be decrease in value as a result so best to pack up and leave. Perhaps we all have to be willing to have our finances adversely affected a bit to change our society in ways we (liberals) claim to want?

Your solution is to have buyers overpay in WJ to not appear racist? Bravo for linking people not wanting to lose money in housing to being racist.

You’re not “overpaying.” That you think so is the problem. If your only gauge is your home value, then, yeah, you’re enabling racism and no different from the overt racist white flighters of the past.

Not the PP, but you are not making any sense here. Why anyone want to pay 800K knowingly that prices will be 700K after school is not in WJ? Also you think it's racism? Get a life.

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Some posters can't get a simple idea that not many families are rich enough to not care about losing 100K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the people who believe they’re not racist but just “don’t want to lose money” on their home. Consider that the exact same thing could have been (and was) said by all the whites decades ago who left neighborhoods or started avoiding neighborhoods as soon as a black family moved in. There goes the neighborhood! They weren’t “racist” of course, they just saw that black people moving in meant the area would be decrease in value as a result so best to pack up and leave. Perhaps we all have to be willing to have our finances adversely affected a bit to change our society in ways we (liberals) claim to want?

Your solution is to have buyers overpay in WJ to not appear racist? Bravo for linking people not wanting to lose money in housing to being racist.

You’re not “overpaying.” That you think so is the problem. If your only gauge is your home value, then, yeah, you’re enabling racism and no different from the overt racist white flighters of the past.

Not the PP, but you are not making any sense here. Why anyone want to pay 800K knowingly that prices will be 700K after school is not in WJ? Also you think it's racism? Get a life.

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Some posters can't get a simple idea that not many families are rich enough to not care about losing 100K.

I don’t think that is it. I think with the avg black wealth so low that the majority of minorities don’t care about white people losing 100k. Taking the “serves them right” stance.

One would grow old waiting on poor minorities to feel bad about white people losing 100k

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure that housing prices will decrease in WJ or Woodward neighborhoods. The houses are already really nice and close to metro. I do think houses in whichever dcc neighborhoods are moved to Woodward will increase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure that housing prices will decrease in WJ or Woodward neighborhoods. The houses are already really nice and close to metro. I do think houses in whichever dcc neighborhoods are moved to Woodward will increase.

If School was a non-factor then you wouldn't have said that it will increase in certain pockets. Metro factor is already a factor in current price. WJ is also baked in. If you take away WJ then it's logical that it will have impact on house prices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the people who believe they’re not racist but just “don’t want to lose money” on their home. Consider that the exact same thing could have been (and was) said by all the whites decades ago who left neighborhoods or started avoiding neighborhoods as soon as a black family moved in. There goes the neighborhood! They weren’t “racist” of course, they just saw that black people moving in meant the area would be decrease in value as a result so best to pack up and leave. Perhaps we all have to be willing to have our finances adversely affected a bit to change our society in ways we (liberals) claim to want?

Your solution is to have buyers overpay in WJ to not appear racist? Bravo for linking people not wanting to lose money in housing to being racist.

You’re not “overpaying.” That you think so is the problem. If your only gauge is your home value, then, yeah, you’re enabling racism and no different from the overt racist white flighters of the past.

Not the PP, but you are not making any sense here. Why anyone want to pay 800K knowingly that prices will be 700K after school is not in WJ? Also you think it's racism? Get a life.

+1

Some posters can't get a simple idea that not many families are rich enough to not care about losing 100K.

I don’t think that is it. I think with the avg black wealth so low that the majority of minorities don’t care about white people losing 100k. Taking the “serves them right” stance.

One would grow old waiting on poor minorities to feel bad about white people losing 100k

It may not be black or white issue. I think many posters wrongly assume that loosing 100K is a small issue for all families in WJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the people who believe they’re not racist but just “don’t want to lose money” on their home. Consider that the exact same thing could have been (and was) said by all the whites decades ago who left neighborhoods or started avoiding neighborhoods as soon as a black family moved in. There goes the neighborhood! They weren’t “racist” of course, they just saw that black people moving in meant the area would be decrease in value as a result so best to pack up and leave. Perhaps we all have to be willing to have our finances adversely affected a bit to change our society in ways we (liberals) claim to want?

Your solution is to have buyers overpay in WJ to not appear racist? Bravo for linking people not wanting to lose money in housing to being racist.

You’re not “overpaying.” That you think so is the problem. If your only gauge is your home value, then, yeah, you’re enabling racism and no different from the overt racist white flighters of the past.

Not the PP, but you are not making any sense here. Why anyone want to pay 800K knowingly that prices will be 700K after school is not in WJ? Also you think it's racism? Get a life.

+1

Some posters can't get a simple idea that not many families are rich enough to not care about losing 100K.

I don’t think that is it. I think with the avg black wealth so low that the majority of minorities don’t care about white people losing 100k. Taking the “serves them right” stance.

One would grow old waiting on poor minorities to feel bad about white people losing 100k

It may not be black or white issue. I think many posters wrongly assume that loosing 100K is a small issue for all families in WJ.

Conversely, the 100k will really come in handy when we're rezoned from Einstein to Woodward.

[Anonymous]

The situation for poor minorities will not be changed whether more white people end up at Woodward or stay at WJ. The way MCPS addresses "integration" is disgusting and only about improving MCPS numbers and external perception. MCPS does nothing to help the poor minorities in the schools once they can mask their lower scores by moving UMC white kids into the school. Its horrible that the performance of URM students has not only NOT improved but declined while MCPS only focuses on finding ways to lure white families into the area to prop up scores.

So sure give up 100K to help MCPS look better, great investment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all the people who believe they’re not racist but just “don’t want to lose money” on their home. Consider that the exact same thing could have been (and was) said by all the whites decades ago who left neighborhoods or started avoiding neighborhoods as soon as a black family moved in. There goes the neighborhood! They weren’t “racist” of course, they just saw that black people moving in meant the area would be decrease in value as a result so best to pack up and leave. Perhaps we all have to be willing to have our finances adversely affected a bit to change our society in ways we (liberals) claim to want?

Your solution is to have buyers overpay in WJ to not appear racist? Bravo for linking people not wanting to lose money in housing to being racist.

You’re not “overpaying.” That you think so is the problem. If your only gauge is your home value, then, yeah, you’re enabling racism and no different from the overt racist white flighters of the past.

Not the PP, but you are not making any sense here. Why anyone want to pay 800K knowingly that prices will be 700K after school is not in WJ? Also you think it's racism? Get a life.

+1

Some posters can't get a simple idea that not many families are rich enough to not care about losing 100K.

I don’t think that is it. I think with the avg black wealth so low that the majority of minorities don’t care about white people losing 100k. Taking the “serves them right” stance.

One would grow old waiting on poor minorities to feel bad about white people losing 100k

It may not be black or white issue. I think many posters wrongly assume that loosing 100K is a small issue for all families in WJ.

Who are mostly white or Asian and have 100K to lose. Most AA and spanish don’t have 100k, so middle class white people losing it by having to send their kids to school with their kids isn’t going to keep them up at night.