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[quote=Anonymous]A post from another thread that the alarmists should take note of:

[quote]Woodward used to be a high school up till about 1990. MCPS closed the high school and combined the Woodward population with WJ. They thought they could sell the Woodward property until the Woodward family came forward to remind them of the teams of the deed to the property. The Woodward family had deeded the land to MCPS as long as the land was used for educational purposes. So the plan for selling the land was scrapped.

If MCPS goes back to the original Woodward boundaries, students would not be pulled from Wheaton and Einstein. Even if there are boundaries adjusted to dip into these areas, you are not in the neighborhoods that truly are issues for these high schools. Woodward would still be a predominantly low minority, high income school. It would actually make WJ lower income because most of the high income families come from the Luxmanor and Farmland neighborhoods that are closer to Woodward than WJ.

As far as who pays what to live in what school district, any neighborhood can be redistricted at anytime. Boundaries do shift for various reasons. Many families paid a premium to go to Woodward when it was a high school. They were in an uproar when MCPS picked to combine the school with WJ. MCPS will do whatever MCPS wants. Any focus group of parents is just a shell game to make you think you have input.[/quote][/quote]

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