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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]And despite assuming this extra capacity at Wheaton that doesn't yet exist, they still leave Wheaton overcrowded over that inflated number. Wow.[/quote]

Yup and WJ is now at sub 80% capacity. Shows what they care about. [/quote]

Exactly. I am completely fine with all the options for my kid and how it affects my family (we're not zoned for Wheaton), but as a taxpayer this is absolutely maddening. Such a blatant disregard for fiscal responsibility in a time of massive fiscal uncertainty. MCPS administrators are like children who think money grows on trees. Then they will come crying to taxpayers begging them to pay more while thousands are out of work and have possibly left the region entirely.[/quote]

Or maybe lots of WHJ-zoned families will return to the public school, once the out of control overcrowding is finally fixed.  Many in my neighborhood go to private schools in order to avoid over-crowded WJ.  Now they will once again have reasonable access to their tax-funded local school.[/quote]

So in this scenario WJ is at capacity and Wheaton wildly overcrowded. Nice![/quote]
And BCC and Whitman are untouched. [/quote]

If they're untouched why are their utilization percentages changing?[/quote]

So? What’s your point? They’re basically unchanged from their current demographics. These options try to minimize the overall impact to areas not affected by the new school. That’s the point. Also, MCPS clearly saw these well funded, well organized parents push back on material changes to their clusters and the Board caved. Are you surprised?[/quote]

There is nothing wrong about that. What’s really wrong is trying to social engineer and impact more people than necessary. 
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PP and I agree. I’m questioning the posters who are miffed that Whitman or BCC aren’t “affected” as if that was the entire point of this study rather than focusing the impact on the area where the new school operates. It reads like sour grapes. [/quote]

Because if you include a broader area in the study, it makes more sense to make more smaller changer than larger sledgehammer changes. if the “entire point” of the study was “where the new school operates” then why was it even in the study? I know heaven forbid Whitman became even slightly more diverse racially or socioeconomically, the horrors. [/quote]

Because a countywide plan to socially reengineer each and every school was never realistic or feasible. It’s bad messaging and bad PR. And what’s with your preoccupation with Whitman? Seems like it’s tangential at best to managing the impact of Woodward. Should MCPS go out of its way to target Whitman because…reasons? Yeah, let’s stick it to the rich kids because we think they’re entitled and deserve to be knocked down a peg?  That seems to be a good use of MCPS’s time and resources. [/quote]

This is a horrible argument. You’re going from zero change at all to “target.”  It would “target” Whitman if even the slightest thing changes whereas elsewhere schools and sliced and diced, and schools are even split from middle to high school? This argument is laughable. Whitman is targeted if anything changes? Entitled much? I’m sorry but this is absurd and frankly, shameful. [/quote]

Why? You haven’t given any reason for a change other than “it should be more diverse”. Okay, where is MCPS going to go to get that diversity short of cross county busing and/or approving massive affordable housing projects on the few commercially available areas to develop in that area of Bethesda.  Whitman is insulated because of all of the buffers it has to its geographic location. Short of massively upending the county’s single family housing zoning in that area, it ain’t changing without some radical adjustments to the cluster boundaries. And those have their own unintended consequences. Oh and who are these diverse kids who are just waiting with bated breath to go to Whitman? Your argument sounds more like a white Takoma Park liberal who wants what’s best for others who may not want it for themselves. [/quote]

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