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OR SCHOOL CHOICE. Let's get rid of the magnet programs that are only in a handful of schools, add great programs, including GT at each school; and allow ALL families a selection of schools within their "region" to choose from; and make sure that each school doesn't go over a predetermined percentage of FARMS. Busing doesn't fix a thing because people with means and who are forced to schools that they don't want to attend will just move. [/quote]

Yes, just remember the mass exodus from Horizon Hill after it was rezoned from Wootton to RM, to say nothing of the mass exodus from Milestone after it was rezoned from Clarksburg to Seneca Valley.

No, wait, actually, that didn't happen.[/quote]
Quite a few families did move out of Horizon Hill and properties in that neighborhood still lag behind the neighborhood right next to it by 15% because of busing that occured like 30 years ago.  As for Millstone, give it a few years and the same thing will happen.[/quote]

Yes, and other families moved in. Because that's what happens with neighborhoods.[/quote]
I mean, the point that PP was trying and failing to make is that there wants a mass Exodus due to busing and there was.  Property values also fell 15% and never recovered.  That's just getting moved to RM which is still a good school.  Imagine if that neighborhood had been bused to Rockville or Wheaton.  Those houses would be worth 30% less.[/quote]

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