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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I applaud the BOE's efforts to analyze cluster boundaries and to bus the W kids away to other schools so that other kids can have these opportunities regardless of where their parents can afford to buy a home. [/quote]

Don’t you get it?  It will never work.  Ever.  We live in bounds for Whitman and you know what happens if they redistrict and want to bus my kids across town so other kids can “have these opportunities”?  We buy a new house in the new in bounds for Whitman.  As do all of our friends.  Or we go to private.  And then all the “extra parent funds” you want will be gone.  Guess what?  Life isn’t fair.  It’s not.  Some people have more.  My husband works 60-70 hour weeks plus weekends.  Does yours?  And we paid triple for our house in our neighborhood as it would have cost in yours because of the schools.  I wish that the BOE would spend the money doing they’re spending on this stupid redistricting analysis and actually TRY to  figure out what to do to help lower performing schools.  But if you think all the Whitman parents are just going to wave as their kid gets on a bus across town you’re out of your mind.    [/quote]

School choice works fine in the DCC and many DCC schools are adjacent to W's, I can imagine something along these lines would work fine. Put a STEM magnet at Kennedy and W kidds will be climbing all over themselves to get in.[/quote]

Also many of the W boundaries aren't even near the school that they serve. So much more could be done without even bussing anyone.[/quote]

So much false information/misconceptions in this convo lol

1. Houses in the DCC are much more expensive than you think. Nobody is paying "triple" for the same house in Bethesda compared with the DCC.
2. Having a segregated magnet program within a school as a way to "desegregate" is dumb. Just one more way MCPS talks a big game about equity but doesn't do anything substantive. Everyone should be against this.
3. Plenty of kids take the bus to school currently. Many take it long distances to attend whatever special segregated program MCPS created to massage its numbers. There is no plan or desire to bus DCC kids to Whitman. You all think MoCo is basically Bethesda/Potomac and then everywhere else. It's not. There are plenty of ways to create more balanced demographics by looking at adjacent school clusters.[/quote]

I agree with much of your points but you are misinformed about the housing prices. [b]The top of the DCC housing is right about at the bottom of the real Bethesda or chevy chase pricing and most of that parity has only been in the last few years[/b].  It has only been within that last couple of years that a million price was obtainable for anything except the nicest of unicorns in the DCC and that was only possible in the nicest parts of Woodside, Sligo Park hills and TP. While the Close in DCC has gone up recently the basic facts is that the tiny or rundown entry price of about 1mil in Bethesda or Chevy Chase gets you one of the nicest houses anywhere in the DCC and 2 nice houses in the non-close in parts. Many many of the W houses are north of 2mil and up. The concentration of money are simply not comparable and that is reflected in the school demographis and results.  [/quote]
You are wrong[/quote]

well I guess if you say so you must be right.. Please inform the guy who owns numerous rentals in 20901,20910 and lives in close in Bethesda how rich you feel in your 695k rambler.  Just don't forget that the raising tide that has embolden you has been raising all boats including the bigger ones.

Just to prove a point that you're being emotional; the median sales price for 20910 which is one of the priciest silver spring Zips is 465k where 20816 is 1.366Mil. Almost exactly 3x like the original poster stated. [/quote]

DP, you're not proving anything except that you have never actually been to 20910 or bothered to look at what exactly $465k gets you there.[/quote]

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