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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OP's point seems to be that some people who are pro-boundary changes seem to present Einstein as a school that needs additional higher income students. As if somehow adding more higher income students will make Einstein 'better'. Even though, the families who are already there, think Einstein is fine just the way it is.

We're not at Einstein, but another lower income school, and many families in our cluster feel the same way.[/quote]

Sigh I guess we are going to discuss Einstein yet again. I have seen numerous posts from someone about how you should buy in the Einstein cluster because if it gets rezoned to Woodward or somewhere even better you will get a windfall. It certainly seems like more than a few people are hoping to get zoned out of Einstein. This makes absolutely no sense though as why would MCPS move UMC kids out of Einstein and into a higher performing school filled with other UMC kids? If anyone gets moved out of Einstein it will be the low performing kids.

As for more UMC coming into Einstein, where are these kids going to come from? Do you really think that people who bought into Whitman or BCC will send their kids to Einstein? Those are the wealthiest areas in the entire county and you can't swing a cat in Bethesda or Silver Spring without hitting a private school.

You might succeed in shipping some poor students out of Einstein but this won't be enough to raise Einstein's scores without backfilling them with wealthy students. You will still have a low performing school, its just less crowded. You may succeed in dropping the scores of BCC or Whitman but it won't be by that much. Even if you could move enough low income kids to force the scores to drop, they would still be higher than Einstein.  The housing prices in Whitman and BCC would soften  making those houses more affordable and fewer people would be pushed into buying in the Einstein cluster so you just made Einstein poorer again.

This is all behavioral economics. Things don't work out they way you personally wish they will work out. They work out based on people's economic behaviors.  Someone needs to do some modeling and factor in real economic behaviors. [/quote]

I’m the PP and I actually agree with most of what you are saying!

MCPS doesn’t always do things that make sense.  [/quote]

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