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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You buy a home, OP, not a high school. Things can and will change. [/quote]

Let's say hypothetically that you're an upper middle class family with young children. [b]You are willing to pay to place them into to a great school district. 
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In your price range, you can afford a home zoned to a premier MCPS school. However, the only homes in your price range are in an area that could be rezoned - although there is no need for them to be.

Alternatively, you could buy a home slightly further out in a location where there is only one set of schools nearby - there is no risk of being redistricted out. The academics of these schools are neck and neck with the premier MCPS school. The homes are far less expensive.

Do you think it makes sense for this family to move to MoCo?

Do you think MoCo should care about attracting young, upper middle class families during a time where they are bleeding population?[/quote]

The school district is MCPS.

Also, if you think Frederick County and Howard County are "slightly further out," that just says to me that you don't live in Montgomery County.

Also, MCPS should not set school boundaries based on what they believe "young, upper middle class families" might want.

Also, Montgomery County is not "bleeding population." How do we know this? Well, home prices, for one thing...

Other than that, though![/quote]

I do happen to live in Montgomery County at the moment.

Montgomery County is bleeding population. Look at the latest Census data for all the counties you listed. 
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Home prices are high because supply is very low.[/b]

As for not setting school boundaries based on what people want - I am not surprised to hear that. That is the opinion I expect MCPS to have as well.[/quote]

Home prices are high because supply is low [u]compared to demand[/u]. That's Econ 101.

How can demand be higher than supply, if Montgomery County is "bleeding population"?[/quote]

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