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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it hypocritical when Consortium residents get so excited about the prospects of rezoneing the W’s to the DCC. As if they are like; yah that will show them how miserable we are and help offload the oppressive amount of problem kids our communities are burdened with!!

But they they turn around and say how great their schools are and poor kids aren’t a problem. Which way is it?
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I haven’t heard any DCC parents say that on this thread. What I’ve heard — and what I totally agree with — is a certain satisfaction that parents who paid an extra $300k segregation fee when they bought their houses may have to send their children to school with brown kids after all. It’s basically schadenfreude. I live in an area that could possibly be rezoned to Woodward and believe it or not I’d rather my kid stay at Einstein.[/quote]

I am perfectly happy with the DCC schools my kids have attended, but I do love to see racists hoisted by their own petards. You do not buy into a school pyramid, you buy into a district and your pyramid can change at any time for reasons that benefit the entire student population.

Protecting the property values of people willing to pay a segregation tax is not actually the job of MCPS. [/quote]

PP, be careful what you wish for.  People in million dollar plus homes pay a premium in taxes to go to a school in their neighborhoods.  If the board starts bussing these upper income kids across the county to other neighborhoods, the county will see a mass exodus of wealth to Virginia.

You're right, property values across the county will drop precipitously.

What that means to the lower income people (who are not able to move because they can't afford to) is there will less tax money funding all Montco schools.  Watch it vanish overnight.  The only wealth left in Montco will be those whose kids are in privates.

Don't let your jealousy and bitterness of financial  success make you wish for their demise.  They will vote with their feet, take their money with them and the lower income poor will be left holding the rotten bag.  It's called Shooting the goose that laid the golden egg.[/quote]

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