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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you listen to the budget workshop from today, they say enrollment is down in every grade except 10 and 11. Who knows how long that will last and/or will it get worse?[/quote]

I think it will get worse, at least for a while. I'm a current MoCo resident that had been preparing to move to one of a few Wootton feeding neighborhoods that I liked, but I had to change course and move outside the County instead.

Some of the neighborhoods I was looking at got pushed out of my price range at the 11th hour. I expected prices to increase, but not jump as hard as they have in the last few months.

There's other neighborhoods that I like which I can just barely afford, even with insane prices, but they are at significant risk of getting redistricted to schools that I'm not okay with.

A perceptive person earlier in this thread said "you buy the house, not the school", which is true. But [b]if you gamble on boundaries and lose, your kids are the ones who lose out[/b]. If you look at which areas are seeing growth, you'll find very good schools where this is not an issue.[/quote]

Meaning: your kids might have to go to a school with more poor kids.

-person whose second kid got rezoned to a "bad" school (50% FARMS) and we're happier with it than the "good" school (25% FARMS) the first kid went to[/quote]

The bottom line I want my kids to A) be surrounded by peers that excel and B) spend their time a safe environment. If a school had a high FARMS rate but scored well and was safe, I would have no issue. But the fact is that the schools that are in play for this area do not score well, and if you read publicly available surveys filled out by staff, a significant portion of them do not feel safe.[/quote]

The bottom line is you're scared of your kids going to school with poor kids.[/quote]

DP. Take a close look at the schools to see what they offer. MCPS doesn’t offer nearly the same experience at Einstein or Gaithersburg that it does at WJ or Wootton. The teachers at the former have less experience and fewer advanced degrees than the teachers at the latter. The activities are fewer and generally of lower quality. MCPS flat out does not care about disparate services throughout the system so long as it appears to be closing the achievement gap, and MCPS is unwilling to impose effective discipline to make all schools safe for students and teachers. I don’t blame PP for seeking a higher quality school. It’s not like you pay a lower tax rate for living in area zoned for schools that offer a lower level of service. [/quote]

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