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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have the resources to pay for private school and will be watching this closely. The DCC was a draw for us because it meant our kid could pursue her interests by choosing a specialized program. Now her options at Einstein may be very limited and apparently if something like precalc or calculus doesn't have enough interest she'll have to do it virtually. Those are just basic college prep courses and if MCPS can't offer basic college prep courses in person of course we'll look at other options.[/quote]

We are a DC family who was planning to move to MoCo for MS/HS and was looking at Einstein as an option depending on where we found housing, specifically because of the IB option as well as their speciality programming.

This whole thing is upending our plans. We may still try to buy IB for Blair but even that looks less appealing if they are eliminating the magnet, which I understood enabled IB students to take classes they might not otherwise as well. The western schools are way less convenient for us in terms of work commute. I don't know. We might stay in DC, start looking at VA, or maybe even explore Howard County.

I really feel for people who already bought in MoCo based on existing education magnets, lottery, and programming options, and whose plans are being completely upended.[/quote]

Schools are not conveyed with the house.  At some point that notion is going to stick for people.  [/quote]

I mean, this is a ridiculous comment in this context because people aren't even complaining about being rezoned for a different school, but about how changing the magnet system is fundamentally changing the offerings and opportunities at their existing school. Or about the loss of opportunity to send their kid to a magnet program at another school outside their zone.

But even beyond that, it's an absurd statement as long as schools have boundaries. Some schools will always be better than other schools, largely due to socioeconomic factors, and the homes zoned for those schools will always cost more as a result. Which means people are paying a premium for access to a school boundary, and will be angry if not only their access to that school but the value of their property is altered by re-zoning.

The only way to change that is to get rid of school boundaries entirely, make the whole thing a pure lottery system. Which will never happen, which means, yes, people will continue to believe that schools convey with the house because in the vast majority of cases and with the exception of periodic rezoning, they do. [/quote]

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