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[quote=Anonymous]"Why will affordable housing in wealthy areas make dcc or NEC better? It'll just make the richer areas worse. What is the point? I'd rather focus efforts on serving middle class kids needs in these zones (in the form of a consortium or otherwise) through tracking more magnet better teacher etc. or just showing middle class families that they are also an important part of the dcc/NEC landscape. Sure you can jiggle to boundaries a bit but you'll just punish families who chose to stay and make a go in SS"

- says the Bethesda or CC resident.

it's not either or. Affordable housing needs to go somewhere; it's not a snapshot in time that won't change. so the question is where should it go. The reality is that the county policies have overly concentrated it to date in primarily Eastern MoCo. They can't keep pouring most of it in the same spot and expect that area to improve. You need to spread it out better which at this point means a focus needs to go on putting more in areas that are 90% wealthy.

But in addition (not instead) you also need to do as you suggest PP and '[show] middle class families that they are also an important part of the dcc/NEC landscape". The best way to do this is by letting those kids group into classes on level w/ their abilities, but teh county is not doing that currently. Continuing to refuse to do so will only drive more middle class famlies from the DCC/NEC to either move or use private - both of which are bad for the remaining kids in those areas' schools.[/quote]

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