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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I agree with you. The problem is that MoCo and MCPS will not prioritize funding to increase the number of teachers, provide aides or reduce class size.

Any additional money ALWAYS goes to other priorities such as giving raises not just to teachers but to every other administrator and type of employee throughout the system. The union pays itself first and foremost. The union owns the BOE. One of the many bad things that Starr did back around 2010 was to agree to increase the student:teacher ratio so MCPS could give itself a raise while every other county employee was not getting one. MCPS could have put forward a more modest plan that only provided raises to teachers making below a certain amount but it gave raises to everyone. The 140K administrator got a nice raise. A tech guy or admin staffer doing the exact same job in MCPS as they would be doing for the police, fire or any other county service got a raise when the others didn't. It created anger within the rest of the County Council and areas. It diminished the quality of education. Many teachers didn't even agree with it.

I guarantee you that any money MCPS gets will not go toward ensuring that all schools get improvements. It will go toward year long school in low income areas. It will go toward more raises and increasing central office staff. [b]It will go toward more busses to send kids farther away from their neighbor hoods to achieve diversity[/b]. It will do to Discovery to rebuy the horrible curriculum that MCPS already wasted millions on harming 7 years worth of students. It will go toward lawyers to protect MCPS staff from all the lawsuits involving sex abuse and failure to provide special needs services. It will never go back to the tax payers students. [/quote]

Hi, "diversity bussing" alarmist poster![/quote]

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