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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The unpredictiblity will have two certain effects on ward 3 schools: 1) families who can afford it will put their kids in private school rather than risk sending their kids to a previously OOB school and 2) families who can't afford private will move to maryland or attempt to get into a charter that does provide some predictibility.  If even 25% of families (i'd guess it would be more) leave the schools those schools lose the sense of community that has made them so strong.  And parents who currently pay $1000 per child to support the extras that make the school great have a percentage of kids who don't pay and are essentially free riding, they will not continue to pay the extra amount and the overall quality of school will go down.  [/quote]

You are WAY overestimating the number of kids that will be changing boundaries. And I think overreacting.  [/quote]

NP here, no over-reacting at all. I am a life long city dweller (not from DC) and I could never see me live in the burbs. until this proposal. I have lived in the city since we moved to the DC area in 2000, and bought out home in the city a few years ago, after considering Bethesda, only because we knew we could send our kids to public school all the way to HS. we live in upper NW and our boundaries have not changed (Lafayette). but if there is citywide HS lottery we will move to MOCO. I don't know how many people would move, but I suspect that a lot of people who are now in-boundary for Wilson would either go private, charter, or move.  the changes in the boundary at the elementary level may have not much effect, I agree with you. but what happens after elementary school has a profound effect on all the chain, from elementary to HS. if we cannot go to Wilson, we will move and we will do it soon (our kids are in elementary school), so one less middle class local family at Deal. people who will send their kids to private, we will do it when kids are in 3grade. we will go to the situation of 10 years ago, when even in the goods JKLM schools kids would live in 3rd grade.  it's not just the boundaries, it's the lottery system for HS that would affect eveybody.[/quote]

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