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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OK, but we don't have that here. Our housing choices are the product of government policy.[/quote]

[quote]DP: exactly, and years of that policy, and also things like family wealth, etc. To claim that everyone has the same choices in housing options is laughable. [/quote]

First your housing choices are a product of the market not the government. [b]The government is not telling you where you can or can not live[/b]. Its a capitalist system. Ironically, a socialist system would be the one where government policy assigns you to live in certain areas.

Second - you can certainly argue that family wealth is an unfair advantage to many people. However, this is not the role or responsibility of the school system to correct upon entry. The equalizing role that the school system can contribute is by providing a good education to anyone who walks in the door so that they can begin to earn their own wealth after graduation.

If you want to get rid of family wealth because you think it creates an unfair socioeconomic balance then by all means advocate for a county tax that strips any new resident of any family wealth upon the first year residing in the county. You could also garnish forward wages for anyone reporting that their family assisted in paying for their college education.The county could them redistribute this money to the poor hispanic community. I doubt this would be very popular but the place to advocate for this is within the county council not the school system. Good luck, logic can be your friend if you use it. [/quote]
The government certainly is telling people where they can live by how they approve development projects and the requirements that they put on developers. They make decisions on the sizes of houses and proportion of MPDUs, which determines the prices of the houses, which determines who can live where.

People are acting like the school system is completely separate from the county council's business/development decisions. It is not. I recall watching BOE and County Council meetings back when they were dealing with the budget shortfalls in 2009/2010 after the housing crash. There was reference to the creation of the MSMC and rebuilding of Wheaton and Thomas Edison as part of a broader Wheaton/Aspen Hill revitalization program with aims to bring more business and bring up housing prices in the area in 20 years. The County government thinks long term (maybe not always effectively), and the schools are definitely part of that thinking.[/quote]

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