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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][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]

I want to see low income housing in all parts of County. If it was true then we wouldn't be discussing fall of housing price in WJ due to rezoning.[/quote]

This is exactly the problem. The wealthier western part of the county has been able to segregate themselves and create schools with inflated test scores imply by locking out nearly all low income students. Distribute them evenly across all the schools and everyone west will see a slight dip in scores while those east will see a slight rise and you will see that overall, we aren't as far apart as we seem. But then, why did they pay top dollar for the house in WJ? 
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Something should be done to offset decades of segregation and redlining that created this situation. Everyone benefits from integrated schools.[/quote]

It will happen with Woodward coming here. WJ/Woodward will be mixed with DCC schools. [/quote]

Woodward will be and it will take Kensington and the Garrett park with it. The Bethesda homes will stick to WJ and it will be better off[/quote]
Nope, both WJ and Woodward will have kids from other schools added. I suspect it will be much less than some people on this thread seem to think, given the expected enrollment of WJ in several years.[/quote]

Totally - Woodward will be Kennedy and WJ's love child.[/quote]

WJ and Woodward are going to draw from demographically identical neighborhoods.  [/quote]

May be or may be not. Woodward may take 1800 kids from DCC and 700 kids from WJ. In that scenario, demography of both schools will be drastically different. Woodward can also be  a part of DCC and that will make it a different demography. In short, it's not guaranteed that both schools will have a similar demography.[/quote]

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