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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]People affected by this who currently are zoned for Wootton will lose a considerable amount of their property value I would assume? So they will just sell, move to much cheaper areas and then send to private (which they will now be able to afford since they are no longer paying for a house in the Wootton district). That’s how I see this playing out if H goes forward.[/quote]

Selling at a loss, people are going to go bankrupt.[/quote]

So much hysteria. Why would the value of your house go precipitously down when your high school changes from a crumbling building 1 mile from your house to a new building 3 miles from your house, with all of the same students?[/quote]

Bigotry

You won’t be able to sell your home to bigots and they are a large share of the market in that part of the county.[/quote]

The bigger problem is some will want a newer HS and a nice new house, and will not want their old, outdated million dollar homes so values may go down because of that.  And, all the problems Wootton has had.[/quote]

Some of the newest schools in the county are also the lowest performing.  I love how some people think somehow a new building increases academic performance. Those things are not related.  Nobody cares how “new” a school is. [/quote]

Finally, a new voice and point raised after numerous pages of the same arguments being rehashed.  Wootton has done well DESPITE a facility needing remediation.  I wonder if the naysayers on this thread can explain that.[/quote]

Its not the building that makes the school, its the people.  So, if you move the entire school population to a new school you still have the same school in a different location.  [/quote]

Not if you add another 30% of kids from other schools to that school population.  If this weren't the case, then Wootton families would be less opposed to it.  But it's not.  Rather, this is an effort to realize the boundary changes that were unsuccessful in years past.  This fact must be combined with the other problems with such a move, including walkability, traffic problems, etc...[/quote]

So there it is.  You (and I won't ascribe this to all "Wootton families") want your kid segregated into a population that you feel is "better" than others, and couldn't tolerate even a minority portion being added in with your kid.[/quote]

A PP (maybe even you) argued that Crown would be the same as Wootton. It won’t be the same student body made up from the same neighborhoods. Hence, it won’t be Wootton no matter what you call Crown. You have finally realized this, so you changed tactics.

It’s not self-segregation when MCPS drew the boundaries in the first place, which it is now trying to change by moving the school itself (after failing to move the boundaries). Market forces resulted in Wootton becoming the success that it is today. [b]You don’t like that, so you want to redistribute the intellectual concentration at Wootton in the interest of promoting equity[/b].[/quote]

It wasn't me who said there would be no change.

You don't want a new population of students added to the existing population of students.   And it comes from a place of believing the existing population is "better."  It absolutely is a desire to be segregated.  Makes no difference if there is existing segregation you want to maintain, or you want new segregation.  (And I said nothing at all like the bolded.)[/quote]

No, it doesn’t. Preserving what exists does not flow from a sense of superiority. It comes from a desire to maintain a community identity that has existed for 55 years. You don’t like that identity.[/quote]

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