Second round options for Woodward boundary study

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getting salty in here!

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Anonymous wrote:Option B is the Best. Res Ipsa Loquitur. B = Best

The best for whom? Not for taxpayers.

Sure it is. Those in the Option B zone for WJ certainly pay more taxes and dealt with over crowded WJ for decades+. Time to alleviate it. And more development coming under master plan. DCC pay less and get more

A million dollar house in WJ pays the same taxes as one in the DCC. A 2 million dollar house in the DCC pays more than a million dollar house in WJ. Yet WJ has more.

yah the point here is there are way more million dollar houses zoned for WJ than the whole DCC combined x2. 2million in the DCC?!? It might have happened on some unicorn of a property but that’s not a thing unless you’re talking cheap apt buildings, then yes there are lots of those. Look it this way all the families on or previously on FARMs (which is most of them most) likely don’t pay any property tax

Clearly you don’t know the dcc.

are you actually suggesting that the dcc has higher property values on average than the WJ catchment?

DP

DCC has 10,000 HS students. WJ has 3,000. I guarantee you DCC paid just as much in property taxes toward Woodward as WJ did.

how do you reconcile whining about huge FARMs loads in the schools and then bragging on how affluent the DCC is? I'm sure there are a few everyday millionaires in the DCC but not many and even less with kids school age. Out of those 10,000 there maybe 200-300 who live in million dollars houses ( most likely with 1mil mortgages so not real wealth) compared to most of WJs 3000. see the difference.

Most WJ families didn’t purchase their homes for $1M+. Even less than 10 years ago, the median home price in WJ was only $700k, and almost everyone I know in WJ bought their house for under $1M, even if their home is now worth $1M+. Even now, $800k to $900k still gets you a house in WJ. Clearly, you don’t understand the difference between living in a home that is valued at $1M and actually purchasing a house for that much. You are far too arrogant for living in an area that is full of infill development for new money UMC families. You realize they’re building new shopping and $2M homes in Crown as well? WJ is not special at all. Whitman families don’t even want to touch WJ with a 10 foot pole.

- A Whitman alum

Whitman families should go to elite private schools tbh. Why slum it in public

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I'm just happy that they kept Seneca Valley under 3000 students with the new round of options

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just happy that they kept Seneca Valley under 3000 students with the new round of options

Oops wrong boundary thread. My fault

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Anonymous wrote:ol nothing funnier than seeing a WJ parent trying to get all arrogant when the entire reason that Whitman is left untouched is because most Whitman parents view WJ as an inferior school and didn’t want to be rezoned to it.

WJ is not elite or exclusive, it’s just RM with a slightly lower FARMS rate. WJ doesn’t have the estates of Potomac, the old money of Chevy Chase, or the elite of River Road in its catchment. The nicest homes in WJ are just $2M cookie-cutter homes that look like they were designed by a 5-year-old that were built in the last 10 years. WJ mostly consists of Rockville, Rockville pretending to be Bethesda, and parents with huge inferiority complexes because their neighborhoods are within biking distance of DCC schools.

Also, the entry price to WJ isn’t anywhere near $1M. You can still easily get into WJ with a budget of even $800k to $900k, and in fact, most families didn’t buy their homes for $1M+, they’re just sitting on newly founded equity.

I don’t think that you understand that plenty of us could have chosen to live in the Whitman catchment area but did not. We purposefully crossed Churchill and Whitman off our list because we thought that it would be a pressure cooker and that the parent populations would be insufferable.

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Anonymous wrote:ol nothing funnier than seeing a WJ parent trying to get all arrogant when the entire reason that Whitman is left untouched is because most Whitman parents view WJ as an inferior school and didn’t want to be rezoned to it.

WJ is not elite or exclusive, it’s just RM with a slightly lower FARMS rate. WJ doesn’t have the estates of Potomac, the old money of Chevy Chase, or the elite of River Road in its catchment. The nicest homes in WJ are just $2M cookie-cutter homes that look like they were designed by a 5-year-old that were built in the last 10 years. WJ mostly consists of Rockville, Rockville pretending to be Bethesda, and parents with huge inferiority complexes because their neighborhoods are within biking distance of DCC schools.

Also, the entry price to WJ isn’t anywhere near $1M. You can still easily get into WJ with a budget of even $800k to $900k, and in fact, most families didn’t buy their homes for $1M+, they’re just sitting on newly founded equity.

This sounds like a DCC parent in an apartment or brick hut built in the 50s. Love it

Lmao I don’t live in the DCC. I graduated from Whitman in 2009 and live in a multi-million dollar home outside of MCPS, in a school cluster that ranks far ahead of WJ. Bet you you’re far older than me and still make less money than me. Stay miserable!

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My parents literally thought WJ was a garbage school when I was a kid 😂😂

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Anonymous wrote:ol nothing funnier than seeing a WJ parent trying to get all arrogant when the entire reason that Whitman is left untouched is because most Whitman parents view WJ as an inferior school and didn’t want to be rezoned to it.

WJ is not elite or exclusive, it’s just RM with a slightly lower FARMS rate. WJ doesn’t have the estates of Potomac, the old money of Chevy Chase, or the elite of River Road in its catchment. The nicest homes in WJ are just $2M cookie-cutter homes that look like they were designed by a 5-year-old that were built in the last 10 years. WJ mostly consists of Rockville, Rockville pretending to be Bethesda, and parents with huge inferiority complexes because their neighborhoods are within biking distance of DCC schools.

Also, the entry price to WJ isn’t anywhere near $1M. You can still easily get into WJ with a budget of even $800k to $900k, and in fact, most families didn’t buy their homes for $1M+, they’re just sitting on newly founded equity.

I don’t think that you understand that plenty of us could have chosen to live in the Whitman catchment area but did not. We purposefully crossed Churchill and Whitman off our list because we thought that it would be a pressure cooker and that the parent populations would be insufferable.

Yeah, sure, Jan. If you didn’t want a pressure cooker, you would have sent your kids to the schools that you’re making fun of. WJ sucks and is literally the laughing stock of the W schools, even Wootton is a better school than WJ. We all know you’re only there because you could not pay the extra $200k to $300k to be zoned to Whitman or Churchill, where most homes actually are $1M+. It took years of socially engineering Rockville as “North Bethesda” and a bunch of crappy infill development to prop the WJ area up, and it still sucks compared to Whitman and will always be the option for people who are too poor to afford Whitman. Now you’re crying that you’re going to be rezoned to a school with DCC kids when you chose to buy in the cheapest W precisely because it both sucks and because it backs up to DCC schools. You get what you pay for.

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lol the owners of SFHs in the Viers Mill ES area are partying hard right now! Notice how they’re the only DCC families not complaining right now.

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Anonymous wrote:ol nothing funnier than seeing a WJ parent trying to get all arrogant when the entire reason that Whitman is left untouched is because most Whitman parents view WJ as an inferior school and didn’t want to be rezoned to it.

WJ is not elite or exclusive, it’s just RM with a slightly lower FARMS rate. WJ doesn’t have the estates of Potomac, the old money of Chevy Chase, or the elite of River Road in its catchment. The nicest homes in WJ are just $2M cookie-cutter homes that look like they were designed by a 5-year-old that were built in the last 10 years. WJ mostly consists of Rockville, Rockville pretending to be Bethesda, and parents with huge inferiority complexes because their neighborhoods are within biking distance of DCC schools.

Also, the entry price to WJ isn’t anywhere near $1M. You can still easily get into WJ with a budget of even $800k to $900k, and in fact, most families didn’t buy their homes for $1M+, they’re just sitting on newly founded equity.

I don’t think that you understand that plenty of us could have chosen to live in the Whitman catchment area but did not. We purposefully crossed Churchill and Whitman off our list because we thought that it would be a pressure cooker and that the parent populations would be insufferable.

Yeah, sure, Jan. If you didn’t want a pressure cooker, you would have sent your kids to the schools that you’re making fun of. WJ sucks and is literally the laughing stock of the W schools, even Wootton is a better school than WJ. We all know you’re only there because you could not pay the extra $200k to $300k to be zoned to Whitman or Churchill, where most homes actually are $1M+. It took years of socially engineering Rockville as “North Bethesda” and a bunch of crappy infill development to prop the WJ area up, and it still sucks compared to Whitman and will always be the option for people who are too poor to afford Whitman. Now you’re crying that you’re going to be rezoned to a school with DCC kids when you chose to buy in the cheapest W precisely because it both sucks and because it backs up to DCC schools. You get what you pay for.

You are bananas!

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Anonymous wrote:ol nothing funnier than seeing a WJ parent trying to get all arrogant when the entire reason that Whitman is left untouched is because most Whitman parents view WJ as an inferior school and didn’t want to be rezoned to it.

WJ is not elite or exclusive, it’s just RM with a slightly lower FARMS rate. WJ doesn’t have the estates of Potomac, the old money of Chevy Chase, or the elite of River Road in its catchment. The nicest homes in WJ are just $2M cookie-cutter homes that look like they were designed by a 5-year-old that were built in the last 10 years. WJ mostly consists of Rockville, Rockville pretending to be Bethesda, and parents with huge inferiority complexes because their neighborhoods are within biking distance of DCC schools.

Also, the entry price to WJ isn’t anywhere near $1M. You can still easily get into WJ with a budget of even $800k to $900k, and in fact, most families didn’t buy their homes for $1M+, they’re just sitting on newly founded equity.

This sounds like a DCC parent in an apartment or brick hut built in the 50s. Love it

Lmao I don’t live in the DCC. I graduated from Whitman in 2009 and live in a multi-million dollar home outside of MCPS, in a school cluster that ranks far ahead of WJ. Bet you you’re far older than me and still make less money than me. Stay miserable!

Come back when you have kids. Rather be poor than miserable like you.

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Anonymous wrote:ol nothing funnier than seeing a WJ parent trying to get all arrogant when the entire reason that Whitman is left untouched is because most Whitman parents view WJ as an inferior school and didn’t want to be rezoned to it.

WJ is not elite or exclusive, it’s just RM with a slightly lower FARMS rate. WJ doesn’t have the estates of Potomac, the old money of Chevy Chase, or the elite of River Road in its catchment. The nicest homes in WJ are just $2M cookie-cutter homes that look like they were designed by a 5-year-old that were built in the last 10 years. WJ mostly consists of Rockville, Rockville pretending to be Bethesda, and parents with huge inferiority complexes because their neighborhoods are within biking distance of DCC schools.

Also, the entry price to WJ isn’t anywhere near $1M. You can still easily get into WJ with a budget of even $800k to $900k, and in fact, most families didn’t buy their homes for $1M+, they’re just sitting on newly founded equity.

This sounds like a DCC parent in an apartment or brick hut built in the 50s. Love it

Lmao I don’t live in the DCC. I graduated from Whitman in 2009 and live in a multi-million dollar home outside of MCPS, in a school cluster that ranks far ahead of WJ. Bet you you’re far older than me and still make less money than me. Stay miserable!

Mommy and daddy paid for the house?

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Anonymous wrote:Option B is the Best. Res Ipsa Loquitur. B = Best

The best for whom? Not for taxpayers.

Sure it is. Those in the Option B zone for WJ certainly pay more taxes and dealt with over crowded WJ for decades+. Time to alleviate it. And more development coming under master plan. DCC pay less and get more

A million dollar house in WJ pays the same taxes as one in the DCC. A 2 million dollar house in the DCC pays more than a million dollar house in WJ. Yet WJ has more.

yah the point here is there are way more million dollar houses zoned for WJ than the whole DCC combined x2. 2million in the DCC?!? It might have happened on some unicorn of a property but that’s not a thing unless you’re talking cheap apt buildings, then yes there are lots of those. Look it this way all the families on or previously on FARMs (which is most of them most) likely don’t pay any property tax

Clearly you don’t know the dcc.

are you actually suggesting that the dcc has higher property values on average than the WJ catchment?

DP

DCC has 10,000 HS students. WJ has 3,000. I guarantee you DCC paid just as much in property taxes toward Woodward as WJ did.

how do you reconcile whining about huge FARMs loads in the schools and then bragging on how affluent the DCC is? I'm sure there are a few everyday millionaires in the DCC but not many and even less with kids school age. Out of those 10,000 there maybe 200-300 who live in million dollars houses ( most likely with 1mil mortgages so not real wealth) compared to most of WJs 3000. see the difference.

Most WJ families didn’t purchase their homes for $1M+. Even less than 10 years ago, the median home price in WJ was only $700k, and almost everyone I know in WJ bought their house for under $1M, even if their home is now worth $1M+. Even now, $800k to $900k still gets you a house in WJ. Clearly, you don’t understand the difference between living in a home that is valued at $1M and actually purchasing a house for that much. You are far too arrogant for living in an area that is full of infill development for new money UMC families. You realize they’re building new shopping and $2M homes in Crown as well? WJ is not special at all. Whitman families don’t even want to touch WJ with a 10 foot pole.

- A Whitman alum

Not any of the prior PP's, but there is nothing more interesting than seeing strivers over-compensate by trying to explain something like this on DCUM. It's really sad. Especially when the "you are far too arrogant" are used in a post by someone being farmer too arrogant.

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Anonymous wrote:lol the owners of SFHs in the Viers Mill ES area are partying hard right now! Notice how they’re the only DCC families not complaining right now.

I did notice that actually. VM won the lotto at the expense of incumbent WJ families

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Anonymous wrote:lol the owners of SFHs in the Viers Mill ES area are partying hard right now! Notice how they’re the only DCC families not complaining right now.

I did notice that actually. VM won the lotto at the expense of incumbent WJ families

I must say that I am a VM parent (kids aren’t in school yet - still young) and I do feel like I’ve won the lottery. If not for the well established academics and ranking of WJ, then definitely for the general perceived better-ness over the DCC and the surrounding schools. And I can only hope that Woodward will be a great school considering it’s half of the population of WJ with parents who are clearly quite vocal and will be listened to by MCPS leadership (mostly because of the whiteness and richness of said parents). If anything, I assume my house value just went up by 100k.

Through all this chaos I do feel like we might be the only people who came out with a better option than before, but maybe I’m way off. Only time will tell.