You could ask for a tax reassessment on your house when the time comes (if the value drops). No sense continuing to pay taxes on the higher valuation.

Also, the county will need a tax abatement for the “winners” in the boundary exercise. It will be nice for those families who get redistrictrd to a W (and get a $100,000 bump up in home equity), but it’s not fair to ask them to pay such a huge increase in property taxes out of pocket.

Not sure how the county can afford all this with the budget shortfall due to falling property taxes, but whatever.

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I think you are just the first neighborhood in a long list to come that will be affected by the boundary change. You could consider a catholic school, homeschooling or simply move. There are only 3 BoE members up for re-election in 2020 and one of them who is up is already against boundary change. It appears Jack Smith overruled what 81% of residents wanted anyways (community schools). Your odds are not looking very good to reverse this decision.

Another option: send your kids to their assigned public schools.

My neighborhood was all in a craze over a boundary change...but it happened. Kids changed schools. I don't know anyone who moved. Emotions will die down.

Unfortunately I think you are just the first neighborhood in a long list to come that will be affected by the boundary change. You could consider a catholic school, homeschooling or simply move. There are only 3 BoE members up for re-election in 2020 and one of them who is up is already against boundary change. It appears Jack Smith overruled what 81% of residents wanted anyways (community schools). Your odds are not looking very good to reverse this decision.

Who moves to a new house 20 miles beyond the beltway to go private?

Anonymous wrote:Sorry OP, but it looks pretty hopeless. Move or go private. Honestly, I’d just go private. MCPS as a whole doesn’t care about middle-class kids.

Go private where?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SVHS is going to be much different post-expansion. Some will send their kids to private school or move, but most will go to SV and it will be fine.

from the people at cabin branch i’ve talked to, it’s not as much SV l that is the issue. it’s neelsville. that school is a complete dump.

Kids from Neelsville MS have attended Clarksburg HS with Clarksburg kids since Clarkburg HS opened in 2006, but I never heard a peep of concern from anybody about the condition of the Neelsville MS building until a few months ago.

Sorry OP, but it looks pretty hopeless. Move or go private. Honestly, I’d just go private. MCPS as a whole doesn’t care about middle-class kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SVHS is going to be much different post-expansion. Some will send their kids to private school or move, but most will go to SV and it will be fine.

from the people at cabin branch i’ve talked to, it’s not as much SV l that is the issue. it’s neelsville. that school is a complete dump.

Not for long you know them cabin branch funds gonna clean it up real quick. Swimmin in it like scrooge mcduck.

Anonymous wrote:SVHS is going to be much different post-expansion. Some will send their kids to private school or move, but most will go to SV and it will be fine.

from the people at cabin branch i’ve talked to, it’s not as much SV l that is the issue. it’s neelsville. that school is a complete dump.

SVHS is going to be much different post-expansion. Some will send their kids to private school or move, but most will go to SV and it will be fine.

Anonymous wrote:Organize. Start a petition and get as many signatures as you can. Go outside the school community and get all the residents that are within the zone. Talk to the press. Be loud, Be heard. Show up with signs at Board Meetings. Start searching for and organizing fundraising for new BOE members who are against bussing.

Or just move.

Moving sounds easier.

People seem whipped into a frenzy on DCUM, but in real life...cooler heads prevail and laziness is endemic.

"We in Boyds and Clarksburg"? The number of MCPS parents in Boyds is very small, and mostly, the people who live in the parts of Clarksburg that aren't Cabin Branch don't care.

Also, the move to Seneca Valley has already been finalized.

Organize. Start a petition and get as many signatures as you can. Go outside the school community and get all the residents that are within the zone. Talk to the press. Be loud, Be heard. Show up with signs at Board Meetings. Start searching for and organizing fundraising for new BOE members who are against bussing.

Or just move.

I strongly feel that we in Boyds and Clarksburg need to come together to prevent the move to SV from being finalized. This is just not right!