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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hogan's favorite hobby is cutting education funding. He also aligns closely with Betsy DeVos on vouchers, tax credits, and charter schools. He makes it very clear that public education is not a priority in Maryland.[/quote]

If the biggest Democrats in Montgomery County trusted their own education system before Gov. Hogan took office, why are their kids in private schools?[/quote]

Who are the "biggest Democrats in Montgomery County" who have school-aged kids, and how do you know which schools their kids go to?[/quote]
I am not sure that their charge makes any sense. I think all council members I am aware of with school aged kids send them to public. There might be a state delegate or two in with kids in private, I don't know. But the claim is on its face a bit ridiculous and seemingly without merit.

On the other hand, as an MCPS parent, I am seriously thinking about going private just because the overcrowding issue is driving me nuts. They have presented no real solutions except to megasize every school until some high schools are even larger than a good chunk of liberal arts colleges. And then they just keep approving more and more development, without ensuring for new schools, parks, rec centers, etc. Its not an educational quality issue (except some behavioral things bug me) but just a crowding issue. But nearly every parent I talk to is highly satisfied.[/quote]

What is your proposed solution? To build more schools, MCPS needs (a) money (in the capital budget) and (b) a place to put them. Where should the money to come from? Where should the schools go? And what will happen when enrollment invariably declines again?

And yes, there keeps being more development. (Which MCPS has no say over, just as the Montgomery County Council and the Montgomery County Planning Board have no say over the schools.) That's because people want to move to where the development is. Without this development, closer-in housing will stay way-out-of-reach expensive, which forces non-affluent people to live further out, with longer and more energy-consuming commutes.

But keep in mind also that in most cases, it's not the new development that's causing the rise in enrollment. (Clarksburg is a notable exception.) It's people who no longer have school-aged children selling their [i]existing[/i] residences to people who do have school-aged children. The most effective way to control enrollment in a given school zone would be to forbid people from selling their existing residences to people who have, or plan to have, children to send to school. But of course we can't do that![/quote]

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