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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Either CG or TB has to move out of RM cluster due to over crowding. CG may help with balancing diversity in Gaithersburg/Crown so I expect CG to move out of RM cluster.[/quote]
Keep in mind that there are broader redistricting issues in play here as well. When it's all said and done, I would not be surprised to see TB move to Wootton or Churchill to balance out demographics better. It's a pretty easy commute from TB to both schools.[/quote]

Unlikely when students in the northwestern parts of Twinbrook can easily walk to RM.
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DP..  We live in Horizon Hill. We could easily walk to Wootton, and 20 or so years ago, this neighborhood was in fact zoned for Wootton. But MCPS decided that RM needed more upper income families, so now our kids take a bus to RM.  Not that I'm complaining, since we purposefully picked RM cluster over Wootton (we looked in Fallsmead neighborhood which is literally across the street from HH neighborhood), but MCPS doesn't care if the HS kids could literally walk to school if it means that there is more diversity spread around. So don't put too much stock into "but that school is so much closer that my kids could walk to it".[/quote]

THIS HAPPENED IN 1987.[/quote]
Yes it did.  It's an example how of MCPS can and will zone a walkable neighborhood from one school to a school further away that's not walkable, as in TB to Churchill or Wootton, which is what I was addressing.. that MCPS has done this before, and I don't see why they wouldn't do it again.[/quote]

1987 was 32 years ago.

In 1987, the Montgomery County population was about 703,000; Gorbachev was calling for glasnost; and Whitney Houston was singing that she wants to dance with somebody.[/quote]
So what if it was 1987.  What difference does it make who was in power and who was a pop star?  The point is that MCPS has done this kind of thing before.

RMHS was under capacity. It was majority low income. They rezoned a wealthy neighborhood that had a walkable HS to RM, added a magnet, and now it's one of the most diverse HS clusters in the county. Why wouldn't MCPS do it again, but the other way around?[/quote]

Yeah, but most families just moved their kids to private schools when that happened in the late[b] 80's.  You can say the decrease in numbers on the enrollment stats.  Eventually it moved up some, but HH still has a ton of families that send their kids to private and parochial schools.  RM is not a draw to HH.  It is being close in to 270/beltway without having to pay Potomac prices and being close to Temples and other private schools with once again, not paying the prices.[/b]  If people are wanting RM, there are a lot of other cheaper neighborhoods to be a part of.

RM is overcrowded, the whole cluster has always been neglected, and besides the IB program, it does not have a great reputation.  [/quote]

Horizon Hill has had only one bus for the entire neighborhood for at least 20 years that I was told.  I know of kids on COSA's and many private school kids too, especially St. R and E's, as well as JDS.  I always wondered why people would move here and go to private, but the lower cost for the area makes sense.  The houses in the neighborhood right next to us go fo $150,000 more.  Why pay that if you want to send to private.  Move to the cheaper neighborhood and save the money.  We are looking to move soon.  This neighborhood has no community feel to it at all.  Just a strange element overall.  It isn't that RM is that bad. I have one there now and it is okay.  But the ongoing overcrowding and the portables now in the middle of the parking lot, is just terrible.  We rather be in a more active walkable neighborhood. Anywhere but Fallsgrove. [/quote]

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