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[quote=Anonymous]My guess is that is that McLean, Great Falls and Arlington will keep drawing people away from Potomac/North Potomac/Rockville/North Bethesda while Howard County and Frederick will draw people away from Clarksburg, Olney, and the nicer parts of Gaithersburg. Frankly, this has already been happening. Better schools, better jobs, better commute and lower taxes.

I don't really see the Bethesda and Silver Spring areas changing that much because of the schools. I do think that there will be people who lose 50K-100K in equity if their neighborhood gets chosen to be one of the islands of wealthy kids to get bussed over to a lower performing school which is unfair to them.

I don't really see how anyone in a low performing school is going to get a windfall though by being rezoned into a higher performing school. I would assume that the lower income kids would come from low income housing or garden type apartments that wouldn't just flip over to expensive SFHs. It would make no sense for the diversity initiative to take the white MC neighborhoods that already perform fine out of the low performing schools and into the high performing schools. There seems to be a contingent from the more expensive areas at Einstein hoping they will get swapped with BCC kids. I don't know how swapping out normal performing white kids from one area  to another accomplishes anything other than messing around with property values. 
 
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