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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all this redrawing the boundaries talk, is there a distance you live from a school where they will not be allowed to change your designated school?  Like if you live on the same block as a school?  If you’re considered a walker and don’t have an assigned bus?  If you live within a half mile?  Or is no one safe?[/quote]

Ask Horizon Hill neighborhood - who literally back up to Frost MS and Wootton HS and were re-zoned and bused to JW and RM 2-3 miles away.

It also lowered their home values by $50K at the time and about $100-$130K now. [/quote]

That’s terrible and a huge concern for many. Not just moving out of a walkable neighborhood school, but losing a huge amount of equity on a house. That is a lot of money! [/quote]

Who can forget the Rezoning Of Horizon Hill in 1987? It's right up there with Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Bleeding Kansas, the Stamp Act...[/quote]

And turning a blind eye to examples like this is MCPS corruption, pure and simple.  MCPS CO forgets they work for the taxpayer, not the other way around.

All I can say is that if this type of thing continues when the next boundary analysis occurs, it's time for a change in MCPS leadership.

A mass firing of the top echelons would send the right message to shape up?[/quote]

Are you arguing that rezoning of a neighborhood thirty years ago was the result of corruption? I mean, if that were true I think enough time has gone by that we would know.

Or do you just think that any boundary revisions are corruption because you are under the mistaken impression that you bought a school zone instead of a house?

The problem is that two new high schools are being build/rebuilt and they are going to need to be filled somehow. Meanwhile, you have multiple schools that are hundreds of kids over capacity, while others remain under capacity. There is a real need to open the new schools, and to realign boundaries.

Yes, that process will lead to "winners" and "losers" but it isn't actually the job of MCPS to preserve property values, and there is no mechanism for "a mass firing of the top echlons" if some people take a short-term hit. [/quote]

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