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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i think the majority of people fighting this change aren’t as much concerned about an increase in farms for their kids school as they are about losing 50-100k in home value overnight.

Anybody, social justice warrior or not, would be upset if you took that much money away from them.[/quote]

Agree.  Some people spend a lot of money just to get here in Montgomery County.  I am not talking about people who pay for W schools zones.  I am talking about people who nickel and dimed their way into an expensive county and bought a starter home.  Now their equity just shot down 50K and there is no way they could sell if they wanted to.  It is a huge financial loss for the lower and middle class.

Even if there isn't a lose of equity, I also think it has to do with moving away from a neighborhood school.  Bussing kids in an overcrowded, traffic-filled county, past 2-4 other schools to their destination is too much.  Not only do younger K students or even high school kids have to get up another 30+min earlier for this type of thing, but it also does not make a very cohesive environment.  You can't play on school sport teams because they aren't local anymore. Much easier to play on a school team near you.  PTA and events decrease because they have a speckled boundary spots all over and the families don't feel like driving far if they are the odd neighborhood out.  Girl Scouts and Cub scouts made up of local boundaries are now more chopped up.  Neighborhoods that grew up together and share events, swim clubs, parks/playgrounds are now going to 2-3 different schools.

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Agreed.  These are all valid points, and it’s irritating when the BOE (at least in MCPS) is incredibly dismissive to those concerns.  And labels anyone who brings them up as an automatic xenophobic.  [/quote]

No, they're not valid points in the context of the MCPS discussion BECAUSE NOBODY IS PROPOSING ANYTHING LIKE THIS. And WHEN NOBODY IS PROPOSING ANYTHING LIKE THIS and yet people keep bringing it up over and over and over and over and over again, then yeah, it makes you look like a xenophobe.[/quote]

Isn't this argument kind of hypocritical?  [b]Nobody is proposing anything like this...until they actually do.  [/b]People concerned with bussing are just trying to pre-empt these discussions because they see the writing on the wall if you look at Policy FAA.  They get criticized for not being open-minded when they bring up concerns about busing, but it's actually the pro-busing people are not open minded because they're not open to the discussion at all because their excuse is nobody has proposed it.  Let's discuss all options that Policy FAA offers.  [/quote]

That goes for everything, though. Nobody proposes to do ANYTHING until they actually do...

I'm not criticizing you for being closed-minded. I'm criticizing you (and similar posters on DCUM) for endless threads panicking about imminent doom.[/quote]

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