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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People seem to only care about their property values.  It’s not actually about what is best for their children.  [/quote]

The thing that people don’t seem to understand is that if the rezoning happens whole neighborhoods will be changing schools. Those changes will impact how the school is viewed.  So if a big chunk of current WJ neighborhoods move to Einstein, Einstein will be perceived differently. The new perception (not the current one) could have an impact on house prices.  And BTW not all W parents are against this.  My kids have suffered due to the overcrowding, I think the need to address this systematically has been ignored.  Boundaries need to be re-drawn.  I, like many, don’t want my kid on the bus an excessive amount time, otherwise I’m open to changes.[/quote]

There are currently kids on the bus for an excessive amount of time. I don’t think that MCPS would make it worse.  [/quote]

Maybe, there can be some changes made to BCC, Wooten, WJ that would change the SES mix of the school and capitalize on space provided by the opening of Woodward.  But, for Whitman and Churchill, as is pointed out in another chain, their geographic position on the far Western Edge of the county makes it difficult to change the SES makeup of the school without someone bussing a very long time.  I've read a lot of posts elsewhere that make it clear some people are resisting change  out of fear of people different than themselves. [b]But I think many more, like me,  might be open to the change but they just don't understand how it would work without bussing kids long distances. [/b] [/quote]

Some kids in these schools are [i]already[/i] on buses for long distances. MCPS might be able to [i]reduce[/i] those distances by adjusting boundaries. But not without first doing the boundary analysis that these change-resisters oppose.[/quote]

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