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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There have bene multiple issues at BCC.  Having a mix of rich families and lower income don't blend well.  Its always been that way there.[/quote]

There are fights at every MCPS high school, PP. My oldest graduated from Walter Johnson and the kids threw chairs and there was a knife fight a few years ago.[/quote]

I'm a Gen-X UMC white lady.  I got punched in the jaw by another white girl in outdoor gym class at Robert Frost Middle School in the 1980s (Wooton feeder).  I didn't know her.  She and her friend started picking on me and wouldn't leave me alone.  Eventually I called one of them a name and she punched me very hard in the face.  I was glad my family moved away 2 months later.   That's the worst bullying I experienced across 3 "good" school districts.  I also remember that the poorer kids seemed nicer than the richest ones.[/quote]

This isn't about poor or rich, this is about the fact that the houses zoned for BCC are premium $$$, and yet somehow these behaviors are becoming a normal occurrence at BCC and Walter Johnson. If this is happening at schools where the entry price is $1.4M, then I might as well save $500k and move east of 270. [/quote]

Any correlation between housing price and kid's behavior? Each cluster is required to have "lower" range housing. [/quote]

Of course not, my point is actually the opposite. People pay premiums because the schools are "better" and "safer," when in reality they're not that different and it just makes me think "why the hell am I paying an extra $500k on a house when I could move to Silver Spring/Takoma Park and get a larger house and more diverse schools?"

Schools should be safe regardless of whether you paid $400k or $2M to live in your house. But if the school with an entry price of $1.4M is going to have all the same issues that any other public school will, might as well save money.[/quote]

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