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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]I’ve read all 43 pages of this thread and am pretty disheartened. I have not seen one comment in favor of the more disruptive (to the current status quo) options say a single thing about the prospective quality of education improvement that the potential new Whitman and BCC students would receive. Instead, it’s all about sending Whitman and BCC bus loads of poor kids to somehow stick it to them? If those poor kids have to spend 45 minutes on a bus to (somehow?) upset the rich kids, great!

The kids being bussed from poor communities? Those are kids, not props in your vendetta fantasies. The rich kids you’re sticking it to? Also, just kids. The “foolish” communities that want to stay together? Communities of people (that just want to stay together).

Let’s make every school better and every kid’s life better. Let’s not use them as props against each other.[/quote]

As a poor family. I sorry you don’t want our kids.  Actually some of us aren’t that poor, we make different life choices.  The best solution would be to open up another hs lower dcc.   [/quote]

Want to give you a big hug. Your kids are wanted. All kids are wanted. To be fair, from what I have read, I think everyone here welcomes diversity of income, culture and race.  The problem is that no one of any income level wants to be bused away from their neighborhoods and rightfully so. Every school needs to be stronger and some underperforming schools need more money, support and staff. Whatever it takes,  they should get it. [/quote]

We are wanted as long as we are not in your schools or competition for your kids.  No one wants their kids bussed but maybe this will give those kids opportunities they don’t have to get ahead.  Our kids don’t have the same opportunities. [/quote]

Unfortunately it’s a zero sum game and we don’t get do overs with our kids’ education. I’d support funding more opportunities for your kids through modestly higher property taxes but not at the expense of my own kids’ opportunities or busing them across town. Everyone wants the best opportunities for their children (which is why most of us moved to the best place we could afford) and are looking to preserve that as much as possible in an increasingly uncertain world. [/quote]

Wow we are all on the same team PP. it’s not a zero sum game.  [/quote]

Are we? There's only one (or few) valedictorians and there's an implicit quota in how many kids from each school matriculate to a particular university. We're not in this together and that's been apparent since I set foot in this county or on DCUM and seen others asking questions about the "preferred preschool to get into the Ivy League" or "my DD has the following stats but they don't have a hook and therefore, didn't get into [insert highly selective university]", especially as our kids get closer and closer to high school. We're more like participants running the gauntlet in The Hunger Games where "may the odds ever be in your favor". This is the meritocracy that we find ourselves in and the system that each of us has to face (or ignore). So forgive me if I don't want my kids being bussed across town to a different school and not the neighborhood school [b]I've already paid a high cost entry fee to get into.[/b][/quote]  You did not pay a "fee" to "get into" your neighborhood. You purchased an asset, which you can sell or rent out if you want.[/quote]

I purchased an asset at a several hundred thousand dollar premium to comparable assets because of its access to a desirable public school cluster. [/quote]

OK, you purchased an asset.  All assets come with risk and reward.  Society doesn't have an obligation to make sure your asset pays out.  Your house as an asset came with the risk that you wouldn't always be zoned to the  same school -- that's a headline risk you should have thought about. [/quote]

And the school board members who echo this sentiment are going to lose their jobs.[/quote]

And the county will lose property tax dollars that fund MCPS. It cuts both ways when you mess with the golden goose. And this at a time when Federal spending and jobs cuts are going to blow a hole in the county's budget.[/quote]

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