Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why the overcomplexity? Leave kids in the school they are closest to instead of bringing them by bus to places farther out.

agree

Many kids are not currently assigned to the school that is closest. It is impossible to do this for every family.

but why make it worse?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A home certainly is savings, if you buy it and stay for say longer than 5 years. It’s actually an extremely important asset and investment. But totally agree you should try not to be house poor.

To the PPs who don’t care about losing $100 to $200k, wish I could be you. But I’m just a regular UMC person, trying to be kind and get through life.

I remain flummoxed with people who are fine losing 100 to 200K. That's....some kind of generational wealth to be like that.

And then to lecture others about their financial acumen? And that the poors don't need it because "they will get financial aid"?

It's not that we're happy about it. We just accept the reality that assets go up and down in price, and we have some perspective about it. My home losing some value is not going to leave me homeless, cause me to be food insecure, or even tank my retirement. I am not counting on it for that. It is a place to live.

"the poors" are not worried about their home values dropping. They don't own their homes. Stop using them to advance your own financial interests..that's gross.

The average home price near Woodward is close to $550,000. Silver Spring is $565,000. Kensington is $845,000. Chevy Chase is $1.4 million. Bethesda is $1.2 million. These are indeed assets and investments (could also be money pits

I’m wondering where you found this affordable, fixer upper. All the homes here are expensive and interest rates are high. People need to live close to their jobs (DC) especially if raising kids so not much choice.

Not in an area you’d live in. It needed everything. Very few work in dc. There are homes for 500-600k, some less.

There are 190 homes under 650 asking right now. https://www.zillow.com/montgomery-county-md/houses/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-77.527685%2C%22east%22%3A-76.888505%2C%22south%22%3A38.934343%2C%22north%22%3A39.353502%7D%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A2975%2C%22regionType%22%3A4%7D%5D%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22sort%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22globalrelevanceex%22%7D%2C%22price%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3A650000%2C%22min%22%3A400000%7D%2C%22mp%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3A3403%2C%22min%22%3A2094%7D%2C%22tow%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22mf%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22con%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22land%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22apa%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22apco%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22manu%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Afalse%7D%7D%2C%22usersSearchTerm%22%3A%22Montgomery%20County%20MD%22%7D

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A home certainly is savings, if you buy it and stay for say longer than 5 years. It’s actually an extremely important asset and investment. But totally agree you should try not to be house poor.

To the PPs who don’t care about losing $100 to $200k, wish I could be you. But I’m just a regular UMC person, trying to be kind and get through life.

I remain flummoxed with people who are fine losing 100 to 200K. That's....some kind of generational wealth to be like that.

And then to lecture others about their financial acumen? And that the poors don't need it because "they will get financial aid"?

It's not that we're happy about it. We just accept the reality that assets go up and down in price, and we have some perspective about it. My home losing some value is not going to leave me homeless, cause me to be food insecure, or even tank my retirement. I am not counting on it for that. It is a place to live.

"the poors" are not worried about their home values dropping. They don't own their homes. Stop using them to advance your own financial interests..that's gross.

YOU are the one using the poors, saying they can just get financial aid. Some of them are just trying to scrape their way into home ownership, though, and it is odd that you would stereotype them as not having the wherewithall and ability to not be able to do that.

Look, you are exhibiting progressive hypocrisy all over the place.

You are pretending somebody who bought a $900k home and now can't afford to contribute to 529s is poor. Gmafb

??? did you just make that up out of nothing?

So who are you talking about? The seniors that paid $300k and might "only" be able to sell their home for $1.1 million instead of $1.2? Cry me a river.

My senior parent paid 50k but that’s not relevant. If you have a million dollar house and no college fund that’s on you.

Still trying to understand who are "the poors" stressed about their home value going down in their high cost school zone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the overcomplexity? Leave kids in the school they are closest to instead of bringing them by bus to places farther out.

agree

Many kids are not currently assigned to the school that is closest. It is impossible to do this for every family.

but why make it worse?

Did nobody tell you that several high schools in MoCo are overcrowded and they built two new high schools to address that? Many children are going to have to change schools and some will have to travel further. I agree it is unfortunate, but sometimes, life is not fair. Maybe when you grow up and have a mortgage, you will understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. I get that no one wants to lose out on property value. I certainly don't either. And for transparency I have a big mortgage but not in an area likely to be affected.

At the same time, if your mortgage is large on the reputation of comparatively excellent schools, presumably you would stand to lose equity whether you were rezoned or whether MCPS did actually somehow manage to raise up the perceived quality of schools elsewhere in cheaper areas. It isn't in students' or MCPS's interest to weigh this as a consideration....

there's definitely some that want to lose property value. oddly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A home certainly is savings, if you buy it and stay for say longer than 5 years. It’s actually an extremely important asset and investment. But totally agree you should try not to be house poor.

To the PPs who don’t care about losing $100 to $200k, wish I could be you. But I’m just a regular UMC person, trying to be kind and get through life.

I remain flummoxed with people who are fine losing 100 to 200K. That's....some kind of generational wealth to be like that.

And then to lecture others about their financial acumen? And that the poors don't need it because "they will get financial aid"?

It's not that we're happy about it. We just accept the reality that assets go up and down in price, and we have some perspective about it. My home losing some value is not going to leave me homeless, cause me to be food insecure, or even tank my retirement. I am not counting on it for that. It is a place to live.

"the poors" are not worried about their home values dropping. They don't own their homes. Stop using them to advance your own financial interests..that's gross.

YOU are the one using the poors, saying they can just get financial aid. Some of them are just trying to scrape their way into home ownership, though, and it is odd that you would stereotype them as not having the wherewithall and ability to not be able to do that.

Look, you are exhibiting progressive hypocrisy all over the place.

You are pretending somebody who bought a $900k home and now can't afford to contribute to 529s is poor. Gmafb

??? did you just make that up out of nothing?

So who are you talking about? The seniors that paid $300k and might "only" be able to sell their home for $1.1 million instead of $1.2? Cry me a river.

My senior parent paid 50k but that’s not relevant. If you have a million dollar house and no college fund that’s on you.

Still trying to understand who are "the poors" stressed about their home value going down in their high cost school zone

They got in a bidding war, overpaid, and claim they will move when the kids are in college to use that money for college. Reality is where would they move to? Kids take out huge loans or go to cheaper schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A home certainly is savings, if you buy it and stay for say longer than 5 years. It’s actually an extremely important asset and investment. But totally agree you should try not to be house poor.

To the PPs who don’t care about losing $100 to $200k, wish I could be you. But I’m just a regular UMC person, trying to be kind and get through life.

I remain flummoxed with people who are fine losing 100 to 200K. That's....some kind of generational wealth to be like that.

And then to lecture others about their financial acumen? And that the poors don't need it because "they will get financial aid"?

It's not that we're happy about it. We just accept the reality that assets go up and down in price, and we have some perspective about it. My home losing some value is not going to leave me homeless, cause me to be food insecure, or even tank my retirement. I am not counting on it for that. It is a place to live.

"the poors" are not worried about their home values dropping. They don't own their homes. Stop using them to advance your own financial interests..that's gross.

YOU are the one using the poors, saying they can just get financial aid. Some of them are just trying to scrape their way into home ownership, though, and it is odd that you would stereotype them as not having the wherewithall and ability to not be able to do that.

Look, you are exhibiting progressive hypocrisy all over the place.

You are pretending somebody who bought a $900k home and now can't afford to contribute to 529s is poor. Gmafb

??? did you just make that up out of nothing?

So who are you talking about? The seniors that paid $300k and might "only" be able to sell their home for $1.1 million instead of $1.2? Cry me a river.

My senior parent paid 50k but that’s not relevant. If you have a million dollar house and no college fund that’s on you.

Still trying to understand who are "the poors" stressed about their home value going down in their high cost school zone

that's just twisting a bunch of posts together to create the thread's ever-present strawman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the overcomplexity? Leave kids in the school they are closest to instead of bringing them by bus to places farther out.

agree

Many kids are not currently assigned to the school that is closest. It is impossible to do this for every family.

but why make it worse?

Did nobody tell you that several high schools in MoCo are overcrowded and they built two new high schools to address that? Many children are going to have to change schools and some will have to travel further. I agree it is unfortunate, but sometimes, life is not fair. Maybe when you grow up and have a mortgage, you will understand.

Option 2 solves the facility usage issue without comprimising walking zones. MCPS acknowledges that already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the overcomplexity? Leave kids in the school they are closest to instead of bringing them by bus to places farther out.

agree

Many kids are not currently assigned to the school that is closest. It is impossible to do this for every family.

but why make it worse?

Did nobody tell you that several high schools in MoCo are overcrowded and they built two new high schools to address that? Many children are going to have to change schools and some will have to travel further. I agree it is unfortunate, but sometimes, life is not fair. Maybe when you grow up and have a mortgage, you will understand.

Why isn’t your mortgage paradise off? Those of us who are grown up paid off our mortgages.

🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the overcomplexity? Leave kids in the school they are closest to instead of bringing them by bus to places farther out.

agree

Many kids are not currently assigned to the school that is closest. It is impossible to do this for every family.

but why make it worse?

Did nobody tell you that several high schools in MoCo are overcrowded and they built two new high schools to address that? Many children are going to have to change schools and some will have to travel further. I agree it is unfortunate, but sometimes, life is not fair. Maybe when you grow up and have a mortgage, you will understand.

Option 2 solves the facility usage issue without comprimising walking zones. MCPS acknowledges that already.

It does that through insane use of split articulations

[Anonymous]

It seems like this thread has lost the plot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the overcomplexity? Leave kids in the school they are closest to instead of bringing them by bus to places farther out.

agree

Many kids are not currently assigned to the school that is closest. It is impossible to do this for every family.

but why make it worse?

Did nobody tell you that several high schools in MoCo are overcrowded and they built two new high schools to address that? Many children are going to have to change schools and some will have to travel further. I agree it is unfortunate, but sometimes, life is not fair. Maybe when you grow up and have a mortgage, you will understand.

Why isn’t your mortgage paradise off? Those of us who are grown up paid off our mortgages.

🤣

I refinanced my mortgage at 2.875% for another 27 years. I don't need to pay it off at those rates. Some of us know how to buy and invest. We still don't like seeing our properties decline by $100-$200k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like this thread has lost the plot.

There isn't really that much to discuss. There are 4 initial options that aren't really going to be considered because they made zero effort to balance the 4 factors mandated by BOE policy. This is a nothingburger.

No surprise people started bickering instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the overcomplexity? Leave kids in the school they are closest to instead of bringing them by bus to places farther out.

agree

Many kids are not currently assigned to the school that is closest. It is impossible to do this for every family.

but why make it worse?

Did nobody tell you that several high schools in MoCo are overcrowded and they built two new high schools to address that? Many children are going to have to change schools and some will have to travel further. I agree it is unfortunate, but sometimes, life is not fair. Maybe when you grow up and have a mortgage, you will understand.

Option 2 solves the facility usage issue without comprimising walking zones. MCPS acknowledges that already.

It does that through insane use of split articulations

true, but if the PP wants to solve the overcrowding problem, that's the most direct way to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like this thread has lost the plot.

There isn't really that much to discuss. There are 4 initial options that aren't really going to be considered because they made zero effort to balance the 4 factors mandated by BOE policy. This is a nothingburger.

No surprise people started bickering instead.

I think it's an indication that Flo Analytics and the MCPS board are terrible at their jobs, by releasing maps that will just make people bicker and not try to reach and sort of workable solutions.