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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.  [b]Property values also fell 15% and never recovered.  [/b]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]

Property values in Horizon Hill are still 15% lower than they were in 1987? Oh wow. :shock: [/quote]
15% lower than the properties across the street that are assigned to Wootton.  Try to keep up.[/quote]

I bet the people who moved in after 1987 (i.e. likely almost everyone in Horizon Hill) have appreciated that.[/quote]
Right.  But what they don't appreciate is not attending the high school located (checks map) 300 yards from their neighborhood.  [b]#walkerswillremainwalkers  #notheywont  #busing[/b][/quote]

Are you really using a 1987 boundary change in an attempt to claim that the 2018 policy revision will lead to walkers being bussed?[/quote]
I'm using a 1987 boundary change to show how busing negatively effects neighborhoods.  And that was before the BOE altered the boundary policy to make diversity the top factor.  Just imagine how much MORE busing there is going to be in future boundary studies.[/quote]

Or, instead of imagining things, we could take a look at the four actual boundary studies conducted under the revised policy, and see that the changes made were reasonable and that diversity was not in fact "the top factor."[/quote]
Of course it was.  It's just that the 4 studies were so small that not much race-shuffling could take place except for the upcountry study where a lot of kids were buaed.[/quote]

Thank you for finally admitting that the revised language in the policy is, in reality, a relatively minor change, and that most boundary studies will result, in your words, in "not much race-shuffling." And, again, in reality, we know that the upcounty study was an example of the superintendent [i]rejecting[/i] boundaries that could have made diversity the top factor to the detriment of the other factors and [i]supporting[/i] boundaries that advanced multiple factors, one of which is, and has been, diversity.

[url]https://gis.mcpsmd.org/boundarystudypdfs/SVHS_SupplementA.pdf[/url]
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The boundary policy revision was a huge deal.  That's why the corrupt BOE members who wanted it changed his these revisions from the public until the policy had been changed.

And if the changes were minor, Smith would not have cautioned the BOE against making them.  He said they had to be careful not to box in future boards into options they might not want.  The most corrupt of the BOE members said she wanted future boards boxed in to more diverse options because diversity was the most important thing they could do for the students.  How woke and insane can one person be?

And again, the handful of boundary studies didn't include any areas with vastly different demographics except for the upcountry study where they did bus a lot of kids.  Just imagine what will happen with the Woodward or Crown study.  Kids are going to get bused everywhere.[/quote]

The degree to which you continue to be obsessed with *former* board members amazes me. There have been four opportunities since 2018 to enact this "busing plan" you keep claiming exists, yet the *current* board members have not even tried. The truth is, they will continue to scope boundary studies in ways that include a new or expanded school's zone as well as adjacent schools. Which follows the policy and actually makes sense. This may or may not create opportunities for more diversity. If it does, they will see if they can reduce the demographic disparities between neighboring schools. That's it. It's really not a huge deal.[/quote]

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