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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The unpredictiblity will have two certain effects on ward 3 schools: 1) families who can afford it will put their kids in private school rather than risk sending their kids to a previously OOB school and 2) families who can't afford private will move to maryland or attempt to get into a charter that does provide some predictibility.  If even 25% of families (i'd guess it would be more) leave the schools those schools lose the sense of community that has made them so strong.  And parents who currently pay $1000 per child to support the extras that make the school great have a percentage of kids who don't pay and are essentially free riding, they will not continue to pay the extra amount and the overall quality of school will go down.  [/quote]

You are WAY overestimating the number of kids that will be changing boundaries. And I think overreacting.  [/quote]

It isn't changing boundaries - it is that under two of the three scenarios, your middle and high schools are by lottery (some with geographic preference...although with overcrowding i'm not sure how that would work).  If there was even a 10% chance I'd have to get my kid from Chevy CHase DC to Hardy for middle school, i'd bail into private or MD.  [/quote]

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