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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No they don't listen and won't listen in the future. Look at the regional program roll-out. How many threads and posts you've seen here expressing concerns or oppositions? Even if only 50% of them actually wrote emails or filled the survey (i.e., the tiny little orange button saying "having a question?"), they should have received thousands of negative feedbacks. Look at the MCCPTA and MCEA opposition on this. Look at the study team's shout on the opinion article....

Now look at their proposed operating budget and the fact that Mr. O's "promotion" to join the CO? They have decided long time ago and don't every care a penny what you think.[/quote]

That's fine if they decide to do that.

But they also risk making a less desirable place to live.

That's why maybe just fifteen or twenty years ago, MCPS was head to head with Fairfax County.  Fairfax is now at number five in the list of wealthiest counties in the US and Montgomery County is down at twenty now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States

Same county size, used to be similar populations.  But one is able to maintain and improve, while the other declines.

It's been stated before, the middle class of all races are determining there's more for the money and better quality in surrounding areas outside of Montgomery County.  Wilde Lake Middle School in Howard County serves it's Black population better than Ridgeview, which have similar size and population, in Montgomery:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/50/1305522.page

Urbana is serving all of it's student groups better than Montgomery County does.

So no, the flight is not just one or two specific families someone might know.  It's a lot and we've been seeing it over the last ten years.

Montgomery County still has some pockets that do well.  But now they're talking about eliminating those too.

Let's see how that works with attracting and retaining residents in the next ten or fifteen years.[/quote]

I live in Churchill, and I plan to move to NoVA after my elder one done with MCPS. I've seen enough and disappointed enough. Several of my elder DCs' friends went to NoVA in the past few years and they seemed happy. [/quote]

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