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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ask the people in North Bethesda and Rockville, which have houses in OP's price range, how they feel about the proposal in MCPS to reassign them to a new school that has a substantially higher percentage of low-income kids who aren't fluent in English than their current school.

They don't seem too happy about it.  Virginia politicians seem more cautious when it comes to major changes that would drive upper middle class families away. [/quote]

The boundaries for WJ and Woodward were designed to keep as many upper class families in MoCo as possible. The way you keep upper class families in MoCo is to have one really great school serving the neighborhoods where upper middle class people are concentrated (WJ) and one mediocre school (Woodward), not to have two mediocre schools. MoCo is actually incredibly savvy on these issues, and always has been, which is why it's the premier school system in this region. They actually minimized the number of upset parents by doing it this way.

As for boundary issues generally, you should visit the schools forums on this board to see that they are not unique to MoCo. Fairfax, Arlington, and every jurisdiction deals with these issues, and they're a constant source of frustration and uncertainty for parents. And those school systems have a ton of frustrated parents -- e.g., lots of North Arlington parents recently abandoned the public schools.[/quote]

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