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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Let me guess. Higher taxes soon because there are no more seats in our schools, amirite? [/quote]

MCPS has 162,680 students. 1,200 unaccompanied minors is less than 1%. If there are no more seats it is hardly the fault of these kids.
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Except thaat's in less than one year with no end in sight.. Multiply the problem by 10 years.  Illegal immigration has been going on for decades in MoCo and it is already straining the county's resources. [/b]That's 1,200 more seats taxpayers have to pay for to educate foreign nationals from another country. Every dollar spent on another country's child is a dollar not spent on our own children.[/quote]

+1 million

I have lived in MoCo for 20 years and the past decade has brought an influx.  We are at a lower-income school with a high ESOL and a high FARMS rate and there is no denying the changes it has brought to our school system (in parts of the county that are not Potomac).

Our schools are overcrowded and understaffed.  That was made even more clear during the pandemic.

It makes sense to acknowledge the challenges the school system is facing due to the surge of undocumented immigrants to the county.  Ignoring the issue doesn’t make it go away.  [/quote]

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