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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]

This is the "we ought to be grateful to the rich people who insist on private public schools" argument.

Also, no one is actually talking about busing [i]anybody[/i] across the county.[/quote]

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