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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It has become clear that many (not all) anti-H posters on this thread are concerned about this plan not because of walkability, or making the most fiscally prudent choice for ALL of MCPS at this moment..but rather the potential for a change in the population of students that their kids will go to school with.

In this instance, the population would shift because the geographic location of the building would shift...but really they are arguing for segregation.  I notice that nobody responded earlier when I asked if there would be similar opposition if a large low-income housing project went in close to the current building.  The "results" that some posters seem concerned about are the same.  I wonder if people would be this vocal if the county's proposal was to build more housing.[/quote]

Bruh…no one answered you because your question makes no sense and is irrelevant [/quote]

Alterntively, when this argument complaint is distilled down to the essence and reflected back, people don't know how to respond because it reveals something distasteful.[/quote]

Is the question what if there’s low-income housing being built in the Wootton cluster? There are actually multiple MPDU projects, which are all low-income, being actively built right now (that’s part of the problem with H—there are SO many new developments in the immediate area that H will lead to another boundary study in the future. Closing Wootton is not prudent long term. H is the most uncertain and unstable for the long term.)

As a Wootton parent, I would have zero problem of low income housing being built in my community. [b]What I don’t want is nonsensical bussing where a whole high school gets bussed into a street that is one lane both ways, and my community gets bussed out.[/b] I don’t have a problem w Damascus or Magruder kid, but it seems horribly inefficient to bus ~2,000 kids into our community while bussing all of our kids out of our community. 
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Thanks for responding.  Your bolded is a separate argument that has some merit.  The argument I am addressing is the one against changing demographics.  The question is whether there was intentional development to the extent that current population demographics/scores were likely to change, would people object?  If not, than any argument about "test scores" is without merit.[/quote]

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