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[quote=Anonymous][quote]It is a free country. They chose those schools. We chose other schools.

No one is buying the myth that mixing up schools will improve the low SES achievement in any measurable way. It is simply a class war, run by people who lost their voice in the national policy decisions with the change of administration. That is why this social equity rezoning is only happening in MCPS. It is not a national trend. We just have this subpopulation of people who lost the ability to have a national voice, and have moved their efforts locally. I fully anticipate that they are coaching their kids to ride this wave into the Ivies, too. Hereditary politicians.[/quote]

No this has nothing to do with national politics or the disaster that is Trump.

I think what is really happening is that the while the property values in the W schools haven't skyrocketed like DC and VA they have rebounded enough to become unaffordable for many people in the DCC. People used to move to the DCC as starter homes and then go private or move around upper elementary school. Now, more people are getting trapped and they are angry about what they perceive Bethesda has and they can't get. The DCC crowd in MCCPTA started getting ugly several years ago and they really did/do just seethe about the Ws. You see it on this board too. Its typical class jealousy. They are the useful idiots in this whole fiasco.

The BOE and MCPS are operating on an entirely different level. They see the demographic shift with the number of URM kids growing faster than UMC kids. They see the trends from the 2.0 disaster and are coming to terms with knowing that the achievement gap is about to explode because 2.0 was worse for URMs than UMC kids. They are looking at schools that are GS6 and below potentially becoming GS 3s and GS 2s in the next few years. They have a choice. Let the W schools and mid level schools stay strong and watch while the surrounding schools fall off the cliff or sacrifice the better schools to keep the DCC and other low end schools from hitting rock bottom. They are choosing to hold up the bottom by sacrificing the top. Politically they feel they can survive W schools dropping to 8s or 7s more than DCC schools dropping to 3s and 2s.

The problem is that it won't work. The people in the better schools getting moved to bad schools will flee. The prices will drop in the former good school zones making them more affordable to people in the DCC who will move in. The DCC useful idiots get to live in Bethesda but the former DCC schools will still drop down to 2s.

This entire activity is solely about trying not to be as low as PG or Baltimore and being saddled with the brand of being one of the largest failed school systems -which sadly seems inevitable at this point anyway. 
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