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[quote=Anonymous]I sent my DS to public for 1-5.  But, it seemed every day, the county came up with some ridiculous plan that would ruin all the good things about our little school and have a negligible impact on the schools they were trying to fix.  I just got tired of the endless rallies, usually several per year, to fight the county administration.

I think PG is just too large.  Isn't it the second largest school district in the nation?  Because of this, the administrators just can not get to know the individual character and individual needs of each area.  And face it, PG is diverse.  There are neighborhoods that are basically urban and neighborhoods in horse country.  You can not make one-size-fits all over such diversity and get a good fit on anybody.  And, because they have so much to look over, the administrators just don't have time to do anything but look at us as numbers in a spreadsheet that they have to even out.

They should divide it into autonomous zones.  Each should get a fixed amount of money according to their enrollment.  Some fraction of the money should be held back for building new buildings, and the different zones could compete for that money (normal maintenance of the building should come out of the fixed fee). Schools that have especially bad problems should also get some extra money from the state. But, then, the zones should be allowed to completely rule themselves.  I imagine a zone being a high school and all its feed schools.  Then the parents would know that their investments in time and effort wouldn't be wiped away at the whim of a bureaucrat in Upper Marlboro who has never even driven through their neighborhood.  Right now, all parents who have invested in the system know that all their work is in danger of being destroyed this way every single year.

Parents need to know that their investments will produce stable results and not just a momentary improvement that can disappear at any time for no good reason.[/quote]

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