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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I don't think I really participated in the Fairfax vs Montgomery County debates in the past.  But people used to post how people who grew up in Montgomery County usually don't go over to Virginia.  But in fact we know whole a whole group of friends who graduated from Churchill and moved together into the same neighborhood in Fairfax.  Some of these members were investors who seeked to revitalize the Wheaton area, to model the revitalization of Arlington and Alexandria went through several years prior, but met too much opposition from the residents there.  So decided that Virginia/Fairfax was the better area.  In hindsight, maybe they weren't wrong.

And it's exactly those types of residents who insist on bringing down Montgomery County and MCPS.[/quote]

The only reason I live in moco not Fairfax is because of the commute to work is a nightmare from VA to MD. But at some point I’ll move there if more work at home flexibility can be secured or when I retire.

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You're probably one of the few that I know of that works in Montgomery County.

The few that I know tend to be federal workers or contractors, who are getting decimated by the current administration.  And/or researchers or statisticians, where if they don't work for the fed, they work for one of the Biotech firms in the area.

Some of them are from out of the area and country and when asking them why they chose the specific school area they did, they said it was because of the school ratings.  Well MCPS seems intent on eliminating one of it's top ranked schools.  Where even though it might be an entire move now, there are still possibilities for changes and modifications.  If not now, then later down the road if school capacity requires it.

Practically everyone else I know does the hour or so commute into DC or Virginia.  Some of the people that commuted to Virginia came back close to midnight when there was that thundersnow several years back.

I sure hope Montgomery County and MCPS makes Montgomery County a worthwhile place to move to and also to deal with those types of commutes.[/quote]

Well if you work in DC or Virginia, it makes no sense to live in MoCo. Just move since you have the choice

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