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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Predicted future high school distributions:

WJ/Woodward: Mixture of current WJ plus two DCC elementary school areas and maybe one Whitman school (perhaps Bradley Hills). Will create two very good schools, but not Whitman level. 
BCC: Bethesda Elementary, the three Chevy Chase elementaries (CC, NCC, and RCF) and probably Somerset; no appreciable change in test scores from the change (ie remains an extremely strong school, but with some lower scoring demographics included). 
Whitman: add Westbrook and maybe Somerset from BCC and cede Bradley Hills to WJ/Woodward. No other changes; cements status as highest scoring MoCo district. 
Churchill: no change [/quote]

I think this is probably right. The only question I have is whether the county will find a way to inject a little diversity into Whitman along the way. I don't see an obvious way to do that, but it does seem to go against what the BoE has been all about to embark on a major change to the HS in and around Bethesda while making the richest, white-est HS even wealthier and whiter than ever while the others (BCC, WJ, and Woodward) include some racial/ethnic/SES diversity.[/quote]

Whitman at the end of the day is in a rich white area. Being blocked off by the river and DC while surrounded by other rich white areas limits what can be done. They will get a token amount of tokens when Westbard is developed.[/quote]

Not to mention they just made Westland richer and whiter which is in the Whitman district despite being a BCC middle school. That is sort of the trend west of Wisconsin. As the east is changing faster than the county can adapt, old forces are bunkering down.  It will be the last area to change. [/quote]

Chevy Chase isn’t going to change either, and I’d assume the part of Silver Spring near SS metro becomes whiter. The rest of the county probably does follow your prediction.  [/quote]

Silver spring would have a very long way to go, not likely. Woodside def mostly white, the rest not so much.  Not Georgia, not Fenton, not Sligo, not 16th st, not Wayne, not even close on Thayer or flower.

Wait have you ever been to silver spring? [/quote]

Silver spring will never we white, in fact it is trending the in complete opposite direction. What it has is a few mostly white neighborhoods that trick a few people into thinking they live in a different sort of area with their bubble glasses on[/quote]

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