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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is easy to identify the outsiders who are claiming to be Wootton parents.  Well they are either outsiders or naive to the real estate market.   Nobody who knows real estate will deny that Option H will cost most Wootton neighborhoods potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity. Some may not let that drive their entire decision, but anyone who says they don't care about that is either pretending to be Wootton, a renter (very small percentage) , or is extremely wealthy (and many of these people go private anyway). Any reasonable homeowner will factor this into their equation and 95% do.  Saying that you literally don't care about this or that the whole thing is about driving distance is hard to believe.  No need for troll response.  I realize you do not care nor does MCPS care.  I am speaking to those in the Wootton cluster[/quote]

Me again - in the Cold Spring, Cabin John, Wootton cluster and I DO NOT CARE!!!! Option H makes the most fiscal sense for the county as a whole. I cannot expect the county to think about my home value and you should not either. That is selfish.

I have lived in my house for over a decade and I am thankful for the equity built. If some of it disappears (which I do not think it will either way) so be it!

Horizon Hill families love RM and Cold Spring families will love Crown! [/quote]

You are probably the only cold spring parent who is for H. I also live there. [b]And Crown will be far below RM in performance if this passes.[/b] Why did you [b]move to this area if you don’t care about the school rating[/b]? Might as well have moved to the GHS cluster if it wasn’t important to you.[/quote]

1 - I do not believe the school rating will drop dramatically as you seem to think. 
2 - I do care about school ratings but I also don't think that adding another elementary school or two of "low performing" "poor" "black/brown" or whatever else you want to say will change that

And please don't tell me that I do not belong here. This is my neighborhood and I belong anywhere I pay my taxes. Trust me that my family has been in this area longer than yours.

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The school rating will drop guaranteed-You are having a school that doesn’t even meet 50% proficiency in math or reading join. And then if fields road joins-they also aren’t even at 50% proficiency. How do you think school ratings work? Test scores. If fields joins you are looking at 1/4-1/3 of the school having below 50% proficiency. You don’t think that will have any kind of effect on the school’s overall rating?  Are you also not proficient in math? Because that’s the only way you wouldn’t be able to figure this out. [/quote]

Let's say you are correct. Let's say the test scores go down overall. You do understand that your student will therefore stand out correct? You do understand that very high academic schools do not take many students from the same school and your student coming from an outlier school is an advantage correct?

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Yes and then we lose 400k in equity in our house when the rating drops. I mean you said you don’t care about that-so I guess you are one of the Wootton families that people on the thread are saying are very rich and privileged that you simply don’t care about the investment you have made in your home? Must be nice-trust fund baby? Most of us actually care about the biggest financial investment we ever made/will make.
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How crazy is your house that you think $400k is a plausible number? Have you looked at home prices across the King Farm split? They're not nearly what you seem to think.[/quote]

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