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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a very valid proposal and I wish MCPS would have had the stones to propose it themselves. However it is tone deaf for one school community to propose a boundary change impacting a different school community and not consulting them. [/quote]

They sort of did with all of their 9 or so options over the year.  It just didn't get positive feedback during the surveys and Taylor did what he believed was best for MCPS. It's his fiduciary duty after all.

Agree the petitioners should have consulted the various communities impacted but went on their own bc they don't care about anything but property value.[/quote]

It's kinda sad because they think they did "reach out" to work with the other schools. They sent chaser messages to anyone with a connection and pretended to just want to chat and get perspective, when it was really just to say "we're working together." And when they didn't get the response they wanted or expected--that the two ESes in question would leap at the chance to attend WJ--they dropped that tactic and quit engaging in the discussion with them.[/quote]

+1 swap our house value for yours was never gonna work. idiots[/quote]

Except, this is just the opposite. If we really want to talk about property values, the proposal would benefit everyone except the new WJ.

It would benefit Farmland / Luxmanor because Woodward would be stronger school than under the recommendation, absorbing some of the hit their home values are projected to take.

It would benefit VM the most since they would be going to an even stronger school, thus being significantly more appealing to home buyers going forward.

It would benefit WW because they will be joining Farmland / Luxmanor in a stronger Woodward than under the recommendation.

Property owners in the new WJ would be hit compared to the current recommendation but not significantly, if at all, compared to where they are today.

And finally, the hardest hit would be home developers currently building in the WJ zone expecting big profits.[/quote]

All fine if that was the reason being stated for the proposal. [/quote]

The reason stated was balancing two schools to give more equitable education choices to every involved. That reasoning also holds and is correlated with property values.[/quote]

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