If you could live anywhere in MOCO, where would you send your kids?

[Anonymous]

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I get it!! To justify the compensation taxpayers are funding we have to compare it to a exclusive private school. An urban school system with kids on FARMS has a super whose compensation can be justified in comparison with an exclusive private school.

The Landon folks voluntarily pay the fees to support those salaries y'all. And those folks don't call themselves social justice warriors.

Why can't Starr send his kids to school in the Red zone with my kids?

Now I get it, too! The poor, who can't afford private school, can suck it. It's all perfectly clear now.

The cr@$ you people dish out is breathtaking. If MCPS is really about the poor cut the personal vehicles and the obscene salaries. The liberal Post is right MCPS is not about kids. When you lose the support of the liberals you know you no longer have credibility.

I'm a liberal, and I think you're an ass.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I get it!! To justify the compensation taxpayers are funding we have to compare it to a exclusive private school. An urban school system with kids on FARMS has a super whose compensation can be justified in comparison with an exclusive private school.

The Landon folks voluntarily pay the fees to support those salaries y'all. And those folks don't call themselves social justice warriors.

Why can't Starr send his kids to school in the Red zone with my kids?

Now I get it, too! The poor, who can't afford private school, can suck it. It's all perfectly clear now.

The cr@$ you people dish out is breathtaking. If MCPS is really about the poor cut the personal vehicles and the obscene salaries. The liberal Post is right MCPS is not about kids. When you lose the support of the liberals you know you no longer have credibility.

I'm a liberal, and I think you're an ass.

Once you stoop to name calling calling yourself a liberal is redundant. javascript:emoticon('');

+1

[Anonymous]

Hey! You stuck your lame retort above my +1, so it looks like I like your lame retort instead of the person who called you an ass. Foul!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey! You stuck your lame retort above my +1, so it looks like I like your lame retort instead of the person who called you an ass. Foul!!!

Good catch, +1!

Fools always get caught!

[Anonymous]

OP-I don't want to get involved in the juvie bickering above. Here is the MOCO superintendent's website: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/superintendent/

I agree with the poster who said you should make up your own mind.

[Anonymous]

OP: I used to watch the BOE meetings here http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/.

It gives you an idea where the system is heading.

Here is the latest enrollment report:
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2011/OfficialEnrollment2012.pdf

[Anonymous]

It seems the unions decide the budget for MCPS with the PTA.

That's kind of unusual given the declining clout of unions.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-06-28/Teacher-unions-education/55993750/1

MOCO may be on an unsustainable path.

[Anonymous]

May I make a point w/o being attacked? Not everyone who disagrees with MoCo's politics is right wing. There is a growing disillusionment with the county and it is a reality we must accept.

Public schools losing the white middle class to private schools the middle class can barely afford is a sign that the public school system is doing something wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:May I make a point w/o being attacked? Not everyone who disagrees with MoCo's politics is right wing. There is a growing disillusionment with the county and it is a reality we must accept.

Public schools losing the white middle class to private schools the middle class can barely afford is a sign that the public school system is doing something wrong.

I agree. Lots of us liberals are disillusioned: our family has switched back and forth between public, private and magnets as needed. Differentiation has not worked for us.

I think the reaction you're seeing here is to the relentless PP who pops up screaming on every MoCo thread, shouting that the solution to all MoCo's problems is to dissolve the teacher unions, which will then allow us to slash teachers' salaries and eliminate teachers' pensions and health benefits. With a snap of your fingers, all MoCo's problems are instantly solved! Or that if we just reduce Starr's salary from $250K to $50K or whatever, this will somehow solve all MoCo's problems. This poster has made these points obsessively across various threads, including the silly point about Starr's salary on this thread. OP might as well know where some of the opinions on this thread are coming from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I make a point w/o being attacked? Not everyone who disagrees with MoCo's politics is right wing. There is a growing disillusionment with the county and it is a reality we must accept.

Public schools losing the white middle class to private schools the middle class can barely afford is a sign that the public school system is doing something wrong.

I agree. Lots of us liberals are disillusioned: our family has switched back and forth between public, private and magnets as needed. Differentiation has not worked for us.

I think the reaction you're seeing here is to the relentless PP who pops up screaming on every MoCo thread, shouting that the solution to all MoCo's problems is to dissolve the teacher unions, which will then allow us to slash teachers' salaries and eliminate teachers' pensions and health benefits. With a snap of your fingers, all MoCo's problems are instantly solved! Or that if we just reduce Starr's salary from $250K to $50K or whatever, this will somehow solve all MoCo's problems. This poster has made these points obsessively across various threads, including the silly point about Starr's salary on this thread. OP might as well know where some of the opinions on this thread are coming from.

* Forgot to add. A key plank in her argument is that teachers deserve lower salaries because teachers are dumb. As Dave Barry used to say, I'm not making this up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:May I make a point w/o being attacked? Not everyone who disagrees with MoCo's politics is right wing. There is a growing disillusionment with the county and it is a reality we must accept.

Public schools losing the white middle class to private schools the middle class can barely afford is a sign that the public school system is doing something wrong.

wow

Mein Fuhrer comes to mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I make a point w/o being attacked? Not everyone who disagrees with MoCo's politics is right wing. There is a growing disillusionment with the county and it is a reality we must accept.

Public schools losing the white middle class to private schools the middle class can barely afford is a sign that the public school system is doing something wrong.

wow

Mein Fuhrer comes to mind.

WTF? Are you just trying to stir the pot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I make a point w/o being attacked? Not everyone who disagrees with MoCo's politics is right wing. There is a growing disillusionment with the county and it is a reality we must accept.

Public schools losing the white middle class to private schools the middle class can barely afford is a sign that the public school system is doing something wrong.

wow

Mein Fuhrer comes to mind.

Mein Fuhrer??? Jeez you people sure take the cake.

[Anonymous]

I'm 10:30 from above. I think Godwin's Law is now in effect. And not a moment too soon for this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I make a point w/o being attacked? Not everyone who disagrees with MoCo's politics is right wing. There is a growing disillusionment with the county and it is a reality we must accept.

Public schools losing the white middle class to private schools the middle class can barely afford is a sign that the public school system is doing something wrong.

wow

Mein Fuhrer comes to mind.

WTF? Are you just trying to stir the pot?

No, my UN-evolved idiot . . . not at all

I'm posting something truthful.

What minority reading that could possibly see any good in that comment?

original: "Public schools losing the white middle class to private schools the middle class can barely afford is a sign that the public school system is doing something wrong."

translation: Minorities are making the schools go downhill.

Bring on Godwin's Law; in this case, my comparison is spot on!