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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]

You believe that a primary consideration of MCPS, with respect to zoning, should be preserving *your* property values?  Sorry, no.

If you believe that properties zoned for one school are inherently more valuable than if zoned for another school, it's a zero sum game.  Some leave a particular school and lose value, but some get moved in and increase in value.  Why on earth should MCPS focus on the value of one property at the expense of another?  [/quote]

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