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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]as if being zoned to Woodward is comparable to a mass extinction event[/quote]

No one said that. Posters are talking about house prices going down if you get rezoned from WJ to Woodward.[/quote]

WJ and Woodward couldn’t be closer to each other. They’ll bus equal number of DCC schools to each of WJ and Woodward. They’re going to be identical, and high performing, schools. [/quote]

Both will be lower performing school than current WJ and it will have impact on house price. [/quote]

WJ 2.0 will likely pull from current BCC, Whitman, or Churchill boundaries. Makes sense if you look at current boundaries...[/quote]

Why wouldn’t Woodward and WJ pull from the same boundaries? The schools are a mile down the road from each other. I doubt MCPS will create one elite majority white/Asian school and one solid but diverse one. [/quote]

Woodward will have around 2700 seats and is situated between Einstein, WJ, and B-CC. The first two schools will be around 800 over capacity around the time that it opens.

It will also likely have a magnet that takes around 400 seats.

It doesn't take a genius to imagine how this will play out, but I can't imagine it will have much if any impact on Whitman or Churchill. 
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You realize WJ is surrounded by the same schools as the future Woodward, right? [/quote]

Not about proximity it is about clusters. You can put a cluster of peaches next to a cluster of lemons, one is sweet and the other isn’t. It also takes a lot of sugar programs (magnet, cap, IB what have you) to make lemon clusters palatable to middle class parents.   That is just the way it is.

WJ is already the nicer Wootton or the poor mans Churchill. There is nothing really desirable east of it and if they fragment the few nice neighborhoods away from Einstein (further sinking it) and a few nice neighborhoods from WJ to create a new W, the social justice contingent of the county will revolt. The only people would win in that scenario would be the families who get to leave Einstein, they are going to win no mater how it shakes out so there simply isn’t enough political juice in it for the county not to make Woodward into a western DCC compromise to placate the DCC while annoying every single home moved out of the WJ zone. But that won’t bother the county too much as the WJ parents will just come off as bitter segregationists across the media even if some of their points have merits.  Most will just hope for the best and a little grandfathering.

There really isn’t another way it could play out.

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