Marc Elrich…….told you so.

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Anonymous wrote:Not to mention the schools. At the elementary level MCPS has a 47% FARMS rate up 10% from just a few years ago. It's becoming a school system for the poor and that isn't good for anybody.

It's completely Marc Elrich's fault that it's not 1970 in Montgomery County anymore!!!!!!!!!11

1970? You need only go back to 2010 when the FARMS rate for elementary schools was closer to one third than one half of all students. People are leaving MCPS. Look at Woodlin ES - used to have a FARMS rate of 20% a couple years ago. Now it is closer to 40%. White flight.

"People" who? MCPS enrollment:

2010: 144,014
2023: 160,489

2020: 165,163
2023: 160,489

Rich people.

You know, the people you all assume you can just raise taxes on to fund everything.

Nobody is going to want to pay even more taxes for schools they aren't willing to send their kids to.

Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

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Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

Rich white people are snowflakes who overrate their own importance.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

Rich white people are snowflakes who overrate their own importance.

Okay, we'll just fund the schools with your disdain and snark, perfect.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

Rich white people are snowflakes who overrate their own importance.

Okay, we'll just fund the schools with your disdain and snark, perfect.

"We" who?

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Please Moco conservatives/independents register democrat for County Exec race and make your vote count. This race was too close and the implications too important.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

Rich white people are snowflakes who overrate their own importance.

Okay, we'll just fund the schools with your disdain and snark, perfect.

"We" who?

Montgomery County? Who do you think funds the schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

Rich white people are snowflakes who overrate their own importance.

Okay, we'll just fund the schools with your disdain and snark, perfect.

"We" who?

Montgomery County? Who do you think funds the schools?

Everyone who pays taxes in Montgomery County.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

Rich white people are snowflakes who overrate their own importance.

Okay, we'll just fund the schools with your disdain and snark, perfect.

"We" who?

Montgomery County? Who do you think funds the schools?

Everyone who pays taxes in Montgomery County.

Oh suddenly everyone pays taxes? I thought only rich people did and that's why it's okay to raise the tax rate 10% in an inflationary environment during an affordable housing crisis.

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In case the point isn't clear enough to you, the math and the politics for funding schools doesn't work if we keep adding an outsized share of low-income kids.

Concentrated poverty is terrible for schools. We have numerous elementary schools with 70-80% FARMS rates. To nobody's surprise, the higher income people in those neighborhoods tend to choose private. While some of that I'm sure has to do with racism, it's also a rational choice given what we know about the impacts of concentrated poverty on education.

This is not sustainable, and I don't know how folks don't see this.

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Anonymous wrote:Well it looks like MoCo’s property taxes are going up by almost 5%. Remind me again why I live here and not across the river? Please remind me how many votes he beat Blair by?

Doesn't raising taxes require a unanimous vote?

Did they disregard the law?

Did anyone on the County Council not support this? Asking so I know who to vote for since I want to vote out all of those who blatantly disregarded the will of the people.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

Rich white people are snowflakes who overrate their own importance.

Okay, we'll just fund the schools with your disdain and snark, perfect.

"We" who?

Montgomery County? Who do you think funds the schools?

Everyone who pays taxes in Montgomery County.

Oh suddenly everyone pays taxes? I thought only rich people did and that's why it's okay to raise the tax rate 10% in an inflationary environment during an affordable housing crisis.

Rich people don't pay taxes silly. Only middle class suckers do.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich white people are snowflakes apparently.

Ok? Where do you propose getting money from?

Rich white people are snowflakes who overrate their own importance.

Okay, we'll just fund the schools with your disdain and snark, perfect.

"We" who?

Montgomery County? Who do you think funds the schools?

Everyone who pays taxes in Montgomery County.

Oh suddenly everyone pays taxes? I thought only rich people did and that's why it's okay to raise the tax rate 10% in an inflationary environment during an affordable housing crisis.

Yes, everyone pays taxes. The rest of your statement is a hodgepodge of catch phrases.

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If you prefer living somewhere where you need to pay for every single separate service, like garbage removal, and where schools are cesspools with no decent curriculum, and where there are no social services for the poor, and no money for cultural endeavors and libraries, then by all means, move to a lower-tax state.

What you may not perceive from your vantage point of self-absorption, is that the more taxes are spent to benefit the population and lift up those with needs, the safer and better-off everyone is... even the ones who are not recipients of some of these services. Otherwise you let inequality fester, and all the problems it entails.

Inequality will fester here regardless since it’s a sanctuary county and disproportionate destination for the world’s downtrodden.

Ha ha ha!

Oh, my poor dear. You don't know what you're talking about. Montgomery County is one of the richest counties of the USA, one with a lot of social services the county can afford, since it's wealthy, and where inequality is low (for a American location; we're not at the level of European socialservices, and yet they have a ton of migrants too!).

The next decades won't change that, because the wealth comes proximity to the center of power.

No. Montgomery County is slipping further and further behind. I bet within the next five years MoCo will be the poorest in the region and have the worst economy in the region. Elrich has been in county government for 20 years which has directly correlated with MoCo economic decline. Unsurprising for a guy who emulates Hugo Chavez

I wouldn't mind it as much if the school served all students instead of exclusively focusing on those below grade level. Sure, they need help but everyone else just gets ignored and learns nothing.