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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What will happen to property values of those in WJ rezoned to Woodward?[/quote]
I think these are largely baked in at this point. Everyone who has bought in the last ten years has known that WJ was overcrowded, Woodward was opening to relieve that overcrowding, that the two schools are very close to each other, and anything in the general area would be fair game to go to the new school instead of the old overcrowded one. And if you bought more than ten years ago I’m not listening to your complaints about property values. 
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I don’t think that’s right.  You’d have to be paying a ton of attention to things to know about that anywhere near 10 years ago.  Most people know the zoned school and not a ton more.

Plus, even people aware of Woodward wouldn’t know what being in Woodward would mean, and we still don’t.  If Woodward is districted in a way to make it a “good school,” there probably won’t be a big impact.  But if the ultimate zoning makes it a meaningful “worse” school than current WJ, it will definitely impact property values.[/quote]

Option 3 would be devasting for those in the Farmland district. Who would buy a house there knowing that your kid is going to be bused across the county to a school with just 13% white students and close to 50% FARMs.[/quote]

Especially since they said time and time again that they would not bus kids across county for diversity purposes. This is exactly that. We have plenty of diversity in Farmland already - FARMS and ESOL. Lots of MC people, single moms in apartments and rentals. They will struggle with the long distance to Kennedy. When they could simply walk to Woodward.  Never more disappointed in MCPS.[/quote]

I don’t think the boundary people are local or get it.  It makes no sense.  [/quote]

Either Option 3 is a poison pill for any effort to address segregation, or these 4 options are just a complete waste of time.[/quote]

No, Option 3 is extreme so that in September when they offer a modified version of it, it seems palatable.

We will go with some version of option 3 and there will be some people who need to bus in unnecessarily — just not as many as is currently in the table. [/quote]

Option 2 seems the more likely option to move forward, with some tweaks. It is the only option that leaves no school over capacity. They just need to make some changes at the margins of several areas to improve walkability.[/quote]

None of these options is moving forward. These are just for people to react to. They will change cone the fall. And you can bet that diversity will be an important complement. [/quote]

Utilization is going to be a greater factor, given the budget situation we are in and will continue to be in.[/quote]

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