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I am a Wootton/Cabin John/Cold Spring parent and the misinformation that is being spread about this study from my neighbors/friends is absolutely insane!!!!  These are smart, kind, educated people who just cannot seem to grasp the fact that yes every once in awhile (in this case it has been over 20 years) change must happen.  Guess what it is not just your kid that may go through this change.  The entire community that you love so much will be going with you.  Please calm down.  The ugliness at that meeting was just completely uncalled for.  What are you so afraid of?  "Worst" case scenario you will end up at a school that currently borders yours with people from your neighborhood going with you.  I just don't get what is so terrible about that???? [/quote]

Property values at neighboring school area may be a lot lower. That’s not really fair to make families lose so much money.[/quote]
Too bad. That's not MCPS's concern.  Schools are overcrowded. Boundaries should've been redrawn years ago.

Of course, as a homeowner, I care about  my property value, but I can't expect MCPS to never redraw boundaries when the schools are overcrowded just because *I* might lose out on my property value. That's not MCPS' concern, and I wouldn't expect t he to worry about that. They worry about educating all 160K kids, not my property value.[/quote]

And yet a lot of people don't seem to give 2 shts about the kids attending overcrowded schools. Instead, they care about their property values and have become convinced that ANY boundary change means a lower property value and their kids going to a crappy school.

Selfish and ridiculous. [/quote]

People aren't happy about the kids attending overcrowded schools. But it's bearable in comparison to lower performed schools. For those whose kids are already in the "good" schools, the chance for their kids to go to a better or as good schools is very slim.  Yes, it's pretty selfish, but the majority who are for boundary change is not from the best school pyramid, which means the chance for their kids to go to a better or worse school is half/half.   [/quote]
As a parent in a public school system, you don't get to choose what school your kids get to attend.  The school district needs to address over capacity issues because it becomes a safety and yes, cost issue because they have to rent portables long term.  Also, parents keep complaining about how their kids have to sit on the floors or trashcans because there is no room, yet you still don't want boundaries redrawn. You'd rather MCPS spend more money on adding additions. At some point you can't add more classrooms, and MCPS doesn't have the budget to keep adding new classrooms.

Some schools are so overcrowded that kids start lunch time at 10:30, and in ES, there is very little space for  recess. You think that's fine for your kid, but it's not fine overall.  MCPS is concerned about all 160K kids, not just your's. Change is hard, but that's what happens when the population increases.

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