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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you listen to the budget workshop from today, they say enrollment is down in every grade except 10 and 11. Who knows how long that will last and/or will it get worse?[/quote]

I think it will get worse, at least for a while. I'm a current MoCo resident that had been preparing to move to one of a few Wootton feeding neighborhoods that I liked, but I had to change course and move outside the County instead.

Some of the neighborhoods I was looking at got pushed out of my price range at the 11th hour. I expected prices to increase, but not jump as hard as they have in the last few months.

There's other neighborhoods that I like which I can just barely afford, even with insane prices, but they are at significant risk of getting redistricted to schools that I'm not okay with.

A perceptive person earlier in this thread said "you buy the house, not the school", which is true. But [b]if you gamble on boundaries and lose, your kids are the ones who lose out[/b]. If you look at which areas are seeing growth, you'll find very good schools where this is not an issue.[/quote]

Meaning: your kids might have to go to a school with more poor kids.

-person whose second kid got rezoned to a "bad" school (50% FARMS) and we're happier with it than the "good" school (25% FARMS) the first kid went to[/quote]Poor kids don't value education like middle and upper class kids do so it's definitely a loss.[/quote]

:shock:

(As far as I can tell from DCUM (usual disclaimers apply), middle and upper class parents also don't value education. They value what you can buy with the education credentials, which is not at all the same thing.)[/quote]PotAto / potAHto.  No one cares WHY their kids' peers are in school.  They only care that they're not a danger or a distraction which poor kids are more often than middle and upper class kids.[/quote]

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