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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There will also be new middle school and high school boundary lines/assignments starting in 2027 (your daughter's 6th grade year), by the way.  So I wouldn't make any huge sacrifices for a given school because you never know if it will actually be the one she'll be assigned to by the time it's time for her to attend.[/quote]
In Silver Spring? [/quote]

Yes, all the DCC high schools and their feeder middle schools are included in the Woodward boundary study, as is BCC, which covers part of Silver Spring.[/quote]

Only the tiniest slivers of downtown Silver Spring goes to BCC. It was a historically black neighborhood and low income apartments gerrymandered into BCC’s zone to integrate it to the point Bethesda successfully lobbied the central office to close rosemary hills in the early 80s when the county was closing schools from the population shrinkage. They only acquiesced when the feds threatened to pull county funding.  Funny part is those historically modest homes in rosemary hills are now some of most expensive in Silver Spring (Woodside non-withstanding) and being snatched up not by lower SES people of color looking to get in to BCC for as cheap as possible. [/quote]

Yes but it's also the closest geographic high-school to many parts of Silver Spring so it makes sense. In fact, BCC was originally part of the DCC until the parents were able to get the county to change this.[/quote]

Ah yes the Einstein parents who “love” their school but just want to go to BCC for the drive have arrived to the chat. Funny thing about about it is there is no chance they are going to slice off the one upper SES neighborhood that is zoned to a high farms school like Einstein and send it to a high SES school like BCC. The funnier thing is if someone could afford Woodside they could have afforded a starter home in Bethesda zoned to a better school. They chose house over school but now have to live with that. Every signal person who bought a SFH zoned for the Bethesda schools could have afforded one the nicest homes or often 2 of them in silver spring or TP but realized there are other important factors.  [/quote]

They just have to reassign K-P to Einstein and Woodlin to BCC. And a BCC feeder to WJ, etc. Domino effect.[/quote]

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