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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Going to a non-neighborhood school sucks.  I did that, and hated ithe commute and not living near my friends.  We moved to MoCo from PG solely because of schools and certainly would not have done that if I didn’t know they could attend a neighborhood school.  
The dirty truth is that MoCo is using the rich folks’ tax base to find all the county schools and services.  One of the top reasons people move to MoCo is for the neighborhood public schools.  Without them, I’d like in DC and cut my commute in half .  It’s also true for the state—MoCo pays a dispoprtionate amount of the state’s revenue.  It’s too easy to leave MoCo and find a perfectly nice house elsewhere, so if you remove the main incentive for upper income people to live here, you’ll likely see it in your revenue stream.
Fwiw, I had never heard of a W school before moving here.  We just wanted a suburban neighbor close to metro where kids attended the local schools—most of the kids in our PG neighborhood went to privates. [/quote]

Some schools in MCPS have local neighborhoods whereas there are many that do not. Several even bus cross-county or have oddly shaped boundaries where the school is a remote corner. Perhaps, you live in one of the few that isn't like that but most are not. [/quote]
8 of the 20ish high schools in MCPS are part of the two consortia. The rest are local. No one buses "cross-county" except for magnets and special ed.[/quote]

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