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[b]No the argument is that homeowners have a reasonable expectation of stability[/b] when a school is a major, if not the greatest determinate factor when choosing a house.  Anything else destabilizes the market, causes real financial pain and robs people of their choices.  All for some pie-in-the-sky theory that sending my kid to your school will make that school better.  I mean I'm flattered that you think my kid will help (she must have some innate quality that the students there don't have), but I doubt that she will solve systematic poverty and lack of parental education.  However, what is not in question is that property values will drop in the affected area.  The market may be irrational, but it does what it does and real people will lose real money here.  Then in 10 years when all the high SES people migrate to the still (or newly) high performing school clusters and the SJW's begin screaming again, we'll have to do it all over...  Wouldn't it be just easier to fix the actual problems rather than acquiesce to the unreasonable demands of some teenagers?  [/quote]

And they've got it! You live in Montgomery County, the expectation is an MCPS school.

Otherwise the argument is that we must maintain a harmful distortion in the housing market because some people might lose money if we don't.[/quote]

There's no "harmful" distortion.  People with means will always filter to the best schools - just the way it is.  The only distortion is trying to carve some of them off against their will.  [/quote]

It sounds like you'd be better off cashing in on your house before the markets change, buying in a lower COL area, and using the profits to pay for private school.[/quote]

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