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

They aren’t bringing the county and MCPS down.  They were not happy and moved.  Nothing wrong with that.  The commute to VA is easily 60-120 minutes plus lots of tolls each way. [/quote]

I'm not saying the people that moved are the people that brought down the county.

I'm saying it's these people who keep shouting and controlling the politics and narrative.  They don't make it a very friendly or positive place for people to succeed or even worthwhile to invest in.

It's okay though.  They can keep getting their revenue by keeping on building new homes and raising taxes.[/quote]

Maryland needs to step in and break up MCPS and or Montgomery County.  MCPS is one of the largest districts in the country it is too big for its size and is unable to provide a consistent educational experience across the schools it's charged with. [b] EG Why is it such a big deal to move/relocate schools?  Well because just a neighborhood over, the schools are not very good.  This is not what you see in other counties in Maryland or school districts in other states[/b].[/quote]
You have not been in other school districts.

Not saying MCPS doesn't have issues, but other districts also have similar issues.

This is purely about income disparity, which is an issue everywhere.[/quote]

Bottom line is MCPS isn't going to do anything about it and is way out of its league in terms of organization and tools it has to bring to bear.  For example, the BOE is run by part time politicians.[/quote]

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