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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, given your concern about being rezoned to a lower ranked school, you might want to look at the Western end of Bethesda,
currently zoned for Whitman.  Even if rezoning occurs, you would get moved to another high performing school, unless MoCo was willing to largely throw geography out the window and have very extensive bussing.  That's unlikely to happen and, if it does, there is no way to predict how rezoning will shake out and anywhere would be at risk.

But, your money won't go as far there and I don't remember if you posted about budget.[/quote]

There is [b]already talk of mass bussing[/b] and increasing diversity throughout the county. Whitman has the highest percentage of white kids in all MoCo. That school will be ripe for redistricting soon.

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It seems like the talk of mass bussing is mostly on DCUM.  But, if MCPS were to engage in substantial long-distance bussing, then Whitman and everywhere else would certainly be in play.

It seems, however, that MCPS is more likely to make last drastic border changes that will cause some people to have longer commutes, but nothing that would become "mass bussing."  There are a lot of reasons mass bussing isn't likely, including the cost and logistical difficult of such steps.

If the border adjustments are more moderate and few people are shipped way away from their home, folks currently at Whitman would be less at risk.  That doesn't mean that some people wouldn't be rezoned.  But the schools to which they would be rezoned are also high performing.

There is no absolutely guarantee until the maps come out, and even then they can be changed again.  But if you are playing the odds, that seems about as safe as you can get.[/quote]

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