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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing surprising there. Many school districts used a temporary revenue stream to fund permanent/ongoing services/staff, rather than funding short-term, pandemic-related expenses as intended.

Adding to that, telling working families that it is unreasonable to expect public schools to stay open [b]caused some to permanently switch to private school[/b].[/quote]

But that should actually make things easier for places like MCPS. Those parents still pay the same property taxes but it's a few less kids for the school to spend $ on. We don't have vouchers etc here.[/quote]

The problem is that school expenses are inelastic. There are a lot of fixed, or nearly fixed, costs tied up in staffing and facilities. As we saw this year, it is very controversial to cut teachers even when enrollment decreases. Closing schools would be even more controversial. So kids going private decreases revenue without really decreasing costs.[/quote]

People don’t understand how many kids need to leave in order to reduce expenses for a school district.  For example, let’s say the school district loss 100 students this year.  While that seems like a lot it’s really not because those 100 students likely represent a wide range of schools and grades.

As PP indicates vouchers would be a loss of funds for a school district while their expenses remained the same.  [/quote]

Exactly. This is also why cutting MVA provided cost savings even though it was theoretically cheaper on a per-pupil basis than in-person.[/quote]

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