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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This needs to stop until MoCo gets back on its economic feet. Doing anything that spooks away potential buyers and makes Montgomery County even less attractive is just suicide right now. Doing a study and then being cagey that they may or may not do anything is even worse for the real estate market and property tax revenue stream.

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[b]MCPS doesn't care about your property values.[/b]  Even if the prices of homes go down in MoCo they will ask for more money from County or state.[/quote]

Nor should they. It's Montgomery County Public Schools, not Montgomery County Property Value Maintenance Service.[/quote]

[b]The County Council should care.  [/b]

the latest - $2.6 billion allocation from county is above school board’s funding request

[quote]Anticipating additional state funding, the Montgomery County Council on Monday added $16 million to the amount of money requested by the county’s school system for its 2020 budget.[/quote]

School system starts sinking.
People lose money on their homes.
The county doesn't attract people with money to raise the tax base, leaving less money to fund the school system.

You must think the schools function in a bubble.  lol[/quote]

OK, but the County Council doesn't make school boundary decisions. This is how much authority the County Council has over school boundary decisions: none. Zero, zip, nada, none, zilch. None.

Also, every time somebody says, "But my property values!", I infer that they own their own residence, live in Bethesda or Potomac, and paid the "W" premium. And yeah, your property values might decrease, depending on how much extra people were willing to pay for being zoned for segregated schools. But property values in other areas will increase.To say nothing of the fact that 1/3 of households in Montgomery County rent.  [/quote]

I infer that you’re happy to gamble with other people’s lives, schools and home equity on the off chance that you’ll end up a beneficiary of this exercise.  I think it’s a giant crap shoot. MoCo isn’t so essential to the region that people faced with an unattractive option in MCPS can’t and won’t look elsewhere.[/quote]

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