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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Diversity will come to Whitman with the Westbard development.

MoCo has to stop trying to bus people into diverse schools and to just have policies to encourage more diversity in housing instead so that people of different income levels live in the same community. Instead they are building teardown McMansion after teardowns McMansion in Bethesda. Why not some subdividing lots with smaller houses too? What about duplexes? The 6000 square foot McMansions take up the entire lot and house four people and a fancy purebred dog max in a space that could house 10-20 people instead.[/quote]

That will eventually need to happen[/quote]

It needs to happen NOW. Or yesterday. We have no leadership in this county.[/quote]

For decades the county built low-income projects up North or East. I agree it's time they show leadership and place all future projects in the Western close-in areas to ensure there is an equitable FARMS distribution @W's.[/quote]

Clustering low income housing together has meant that gangs can harass people all in one place - threatening people and regularly hitting people up for money . Stupid.[/quote]

There shouldn't be a concentration of low income housing. It should be distributed.[/quote]

Right, and since up until now it has all been "distributed" in Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, it's time to "distribute" more of it in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Potomac. I'd love to see them sue because the coverage in the media would be so entertaining. What can they say other than "I didn't pay $2 million to live near those people!"[/quote]

But you knew that when you moved there. There is an other side of the argument that building it in cheaper areas means there will be more of it to go around considering there isn't enough currently. That said why did you move to Silver Spring, south Arlington, Germantown or the like if you didn't wan't to be around poor people? At the end of the day you wanted the discount and now you have jealousy issues that others were able to avoid it. Life isn't fair, Rich people will always avoid it because they are rich(er) and they have options.

Every person in Bethesda or North Arlington could have moved to Silver Spring or South Arlington. They chose not to, Most everybody in Silver Spring chose not to live in PG. see how that works. Now the people in Silver Spring are bitter that there is a group that ignores them and now they want to lash out the only way they think they will notice. But it isn't going to happen all the while the east county is getting poorer and browner and they think building a little public housing in the west will change that. It won't and most developers rather sell to the rich so don't hold your breath.

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