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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read the Baltimore Banners article on declining school enrollment.  (MD/MCPS) Leaders quoted blame everything BUT the obvious: [b]school quality affects enrollment as does the broader impacts of county governments social and economic decisions.[/b]

If our schools are already over crowded and underperforming why harp on wanting more enrollment? It’s not going to get better adding thousands more students - the funding per student only goes so far. And those thousands they reference aren’t necessarily the ones whose parents pay top dollar in property taxes or are active donors to the PTA.

Honestly, mcps has been such a disappointment. Property taxes keep increasing, quality of services decrease.  Fights over development and housing don’t add up to more revenue and better schools. Montgomery county can’t compete with business friendly nova to attract large companies. Housing is expensive and traffic into the city/va is bumper to bumper.

Sorry for the rant, but maybe they can focus on making it a better place to live than hitting a magic number for a measly percentage of federal tax dollars…

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Yep, MCPS is too big for its own good.  In theory it could leverage resources across schools to create better academic environment in practice due the way in which MCPS forces school participation to be tied to zip code they essentially are creating winners and losers with all the special programs and lotteries.  For example, they say Rockville has a fabulous IB program, but it's at Richard Montgomery and my kids will go to Rockville High School so it's completely unavailable to me except by lottery, might as well be on the moon.

They really need to break up MCPS.  I would also be for having parents be able to opt out for home school or private and have the funds made available for the students.

When the schools are a real estate problem you know you've messed up.[/quote]

We know you'd love to make sure that the public funding intended to be distributed to address the needs of all on a more or less equivalent basis inured more greatly to you and yours, instead.[/quote]

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