Initial boundary options for Woodward study area are up

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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

lol you think homes go for asking.

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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?

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.

oh the dripping entitlement.

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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.

That's Option 4, prioritizing geography. Do you think that's viable, with so many split articulations?

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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.

Yes, but this is DCUM. People were bound to bicker no matter what the maps looked like.

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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.

lol so true. I’m signing off until the Crown maps are released. Will they get more than us? Will they have an option 3? Riveting.

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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.

That's Option 4, prioritizing geography. Do you think that's viable, with so many split articulations?

How many more split articulations do Options 2 and 4 have compared to the current number?

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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.

That's Option 4, prioritizing geography. Do you think that's viable, with so many split articulations?

How many more split articulations do Options 2 and 4 have compared to the current number?

You can compare on the options website

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1. These are not the final options (has been said multiple times, and yes, as pointed out on page 40-something, they did a horrible job of communicating this).

2. The consultants and MCPS staff should have know that releasing options that are not options would lead to crazy commotion from the community.

3. It not MCPS or the school Board's job to care about your property values: they care about educating all kids as best they can while not wasting money

Wonder if they will move forward with releasing 4 "not final options" for Crown next week or if they will learn from the errors of their ways

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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.

That's Option 4, prioritizing geography. Do you think that's viable, with so many split articulations?

How many more split articulations do Options 2 and 4 have compared to the current number?

Looks like about 12 currently and 50 in the new options.

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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.

That's Option 4, prioritizing geography. Do you think that's viable, with so many split articulations?

How many more split articulations do Options 2 and 4 have compared to the current number?

Looks like about 12 currently and 50 in the new options.

50??? Yeah that's not good.

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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.

That's Option 4, prioritizing geography. Do you think that's viable, with so many split articulations?

How many more split articulations do Options 2 and 4 have compared to the current number?

Looks like about 12 currently and 50 in the new options.

50??? Yeah that's not good.

Option 1 has zero split articulations from ES to MS.

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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.

The board has been incompetent for years. Only the county council can hold the, accountable and they refuse to.

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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.

That's Option 4, prioritizing geography. Do you think that's viable, with so many split articulations?

How many more split articulations do Options 2 and 4 have compared to the current number?

Looks like about 12 currently and 50 in the new options.

50??? Yeah that's not good.

Option 1 has zero split articulations from ES to MS.

but if I recall correctly, the issue with Option 1 is that it is least (?) likely to solve the overcrowding issue. I might be wrong (and it would be nice to have all of the data in one place). Is there an adjustment between Options 1 and 2 that would balance the issues?

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Anonymous wrote:If they go with option 3 and move the Chevy Chase students from, Bethesda Chevy Chase to Blair, with they rename Bethesda Chevy Chase to Bethesda?

As someone who lives a third of a mile directly south of B-CC (and thus by Option 3 would have to send my kid by bus to Blair instead of them walking to B-CC), I appreciate this query. It would be quite cheeky to keep Chevy as part of the school’s name if MCPS forces most Chevy kids to bus six miles east!

I live .2 miles from Blair and kids from next door have being bussed to Einstein for a decade.

Are the property values of the kids zoned for different schools different?

And /or did you know when you moved there

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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?

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.

oh the dripping entitlement.

It’s not entitled. When you go to fancy meals, travel, upgrade your house, all kinds of nice things, we went without and paid off our mortgage. See how that works. We haven’t been on a vacation in years, not even a weekend away.