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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ I forgot to add Woodward to the list. I am assuming that it will end up a W school, and drive up house values.[/quote]
Be realistic. If you live in an area that is currently zoned for WJ, you are not going to get re-zoned to Einstein (no matter how much people here like to poke at you and suggest you might), so your housing value isn’t going to take a huge hit. If you are currently zoned for Einstein or Wheaton and get re-zoned to Woodward, sure you may see a modest increase, but it will take a while before Woodward’s reputation is established such that you would see that 200k gap in prices like you see now between Kensington homes that are zoned for WJ and those that are zoned for Einstein. If you really would like to sell your house, I would be more concerned with mortgage rates and other market forces than what HS the house will be zoned for come 2026. [/quote]

Current DCC homeowners who get moved to Woodward will immediately get at least a 200k bump in house value as long as Woodward is majority white. This is how this works. [/quote]

Do you really think they'll create more segregated schools?[/quote]

+1. There is zero chance Woodward will be majority white.[/quote]

I don't think WJ will remain majority white either.[/quote]

Given that the MCPS is something like 30% white it seems unlikely, but seriously are any schools majority white? I didn't look it up but even places like Whitman and Churchill are something just below 50% I thought?[/quote]
I think the elephant in the room here is the percentage of the non-White student body that is Asian versus Black or Hispanic. The other Ws may not be majority White, but no one thinks of those schools as majority minority because most of the non-White students are Asian. Wootton is 41% White/37% Asian; Churchill is 46% White/30% Asian; Whitman is 67% White/14%Asian; and WJ is 52% White/14% Asian.[/quote]

Yes, AA and HI students are not well represented at the schools in that part of the county.[/quote]

Because AA and HI people are not well represented in the homes in that part of the county.[/quote]

Not really true but if that's what you need to tell yourself...[/quote]

I guess it depends on how you define "[i]well[/i] represented."

Wootton: 11.8% Black, 8% Hispanic
Churchill: 10.1% Black, 8.2% Hispanic
Whitman: ≤5.0% Black, 11.2% Hispanic
WJ: 12.4% Black, 17.8% Hispanic

MCPS overall: 21.9% Black, 33.4% Hispanic[/quote]

I think we should line up all the children and get a color meter measurement of their skin color.  Each child is assigned a color number, then equally distributed to each school in exactly equal numbers every year.

Yeah.  Right.

Talk about race or how you want to divide children by skin color all you want, but it won't change a thing because your starting premise is wrong.  It's not the teacher's fault.  It's not the school's fault.  You can't fix a rotten home life and the kids have to lay their heads down someplace safe and nurturing.  If the parents are convicted criminals, violent, sex offenders - a child is already behind the 8-ball and unless MCPS is going to put them into boarding schools, you're not going to change it.  You can do all you want to mix up kids, but it won't change their home life or the outcome.  If you're serious about solving the issues, start with the parents and start fixing them in PreK and ES, but if the parents don't care about their child's education there is really nothing the school can do.

People really interested in solving "race issues" focus on the children in their environment.  The really sick people who measure children by color are the real racists here.[/quote]

Agree that seeing communities only through the lens of race is destructive. [/quote]

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