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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bring the redistricting on! I live just a few blocks from the divide between WJ and Einstein (and Einstein is MILES closer to the WJ students here). I'm now in the Einstein cluster and perfectly fine with that, but can't imagine that if things actually got redistricted that my home value would go anywhere but up  -- but of course the property taxes would go up too.[/quote]

I also live on the Einstein side. I don't care if they redistrict but I do care a lot that people are willing to spend $200k to keep their kids away from my kid and his friends over here on our side of the line. It's just so stark here with the line a few blocks away. People think it's a safer investment to live in a rich, mostly white cluster. That is very morally troubling to me. What if you could buy tickets to movies where only white people attended, and they cost more? What if you could pay more to join a swim club where only white people attended, and it cost more? That's how this feels to me.[/quote]

Why did you pay more to live in Einstein boundaries than say rather than Northwood (or fill in the blank)?  Did you totally ignore the schools?  Did you not want your kids near the Northwood kids?  I'm not going to presume that. I assume most of us bought a house we could afford with the best schools possible within that budget.  Why cast such aspersions to your neighbors?[/quote]

I'm the one you're responding to. I see your point. But not everyone buys houses that way, looking for the highest rated schools at their price point. And many, many people like us could afford to live in wealthier areas but don't. When your income goes up, should you move to Whitman? We bought a house in an area we liked with a good commute, ignoring the ratings, figuring it was MCPS and it would all be okay. We also were very aware that "good" scores correlate with income and race, not school quality. It turns out that we really like our school and our neighbors who moved here with a similar attitude. We also regularly encounter disparaging remarks from strangers about our school (example: meet a guy walking his dog who says hey this is a really nice street. It's such a shame it goes to Einstein). Maybe I've gotten a little cynical from all these encounters.[/quote]
It sounds like you made the right choice for your family.  We moved out of the Einstein cluster when our kids were young because we were apprehensive about the school's ratings.  I just checked them again after reading this thread and I was reminded of what I discovered back then that although white and asian children at einstein do much better than AA and HI children (I believe this differential is due to socioeconomic status not race), [b]all groups (including white and asian kids) achieve lower SAT scores than the MCPS average.[/b]  For us this was an important data point.  We believed our children would be better off if they went to a school with lots of high performing kids.  What we found was that it has been a mixed bag.  It is a larger peer group but it is still pretty much the same curriculum.  I am for the most part happy with our high school and it sounds like you are happy with Einstein.  You don't like people assuming your school is crappy and I don't like people assuming we moved so our kids could go to school with white kids.[/quote]

My kids aren't in the Einstein cluster so I have no dog in this fight, but according to the 2016 results white and African American kids at Einstein scored higher than the MCPS SAT average. [/quote]

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