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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone pays the same rate based on their assessed value.  If your Wheaton zoned house is assessed at $100 and the tax rate is 5%, you contribute $5 to the education funds.  If you live in Whitman and your house is assessed at $200, you contribute $10 to the education fund pool.  [/quote]

Stop this nonsense and silly semantics. 
Drivers of property value are School Quality, Commute Time, Crime rates, Size of land, Quality of build/renovations, Garage, Square Footage, etc. 
Number 1 driver of property value in the USA is school zoning.

That's why there will be no major boundary changes.

Stop talking about property taxes = assessment * tax rate per $100 value of assessment. Grow up and keep your eye on the ball. People in America buy the best house they can afford for the schools (if they have/want kids). [/quote]

Property values are not zero sum. If you live in the current Whitman boundaries, and Whitman is no longer 70% white and 0% poor, because students from a different neighborhood are going to Whitman, then maybe your property value will decline. But the property values in that different neighborhood will go up.

And, frankly, the purpose of a public school system, or of public government in general, is not to maintain the status quo of high property values in this neighborhood and low property values in that neighborhood. [/quote]

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