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Everyone knows this; however these boundaries have not changed for decades in some instances.  Its not unreasonable for parents to rely upon them when choosing a school for their child.  Nor it is unreasonable for them to fight when someone tries to take that choice away, especially if it means losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.  [/quote]

The argument here is that, if you paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (!) extra so that your house would be zoned for School A vs. School B in MCPS, your house must continue to be zoned for School A, because otherwise you might lose money when you sell your house.[/quote]

No the argument is that homeowners have a reasonable expectation of stability when a school is a major, if not the greatest determinate factor when choosing a house.  Anything else destabilizes the market, causes real financial pain and robs people of their choices.  All for some pie-in-the-sky theory that sending my kid to your school will make that school better.  I mean I'm flattered that you think my kid will help (she must have some innate quality that the students there don't have), but I doubt that she will solve systematic poverty and lack of parental education.  However, what is not in question is that property values will drop in the affected area.  The market may be irrational, but it does what it does and real people will lose real money here.  Then in 10 years when all the high SES people migrate to the still (or newly) high performing school clusters and the SJW's begin screaming again, we'll have to do it all over...  Wouldn't it be just easier to fix the actual problems rather than acquiesce to the unreasonable demands of some teenagers?  [/quote]

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