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[quote=Anonymous]So back to the subject. Its hypocritical to say you object to MCPS being broken up because you don't want the low income eastern schools to become poorer. Right now there is more poverty and less funding for schools in Baltimore MD than eastern MoCo. Those posters have no problem diverted more funds at the county level to eastern MoCo but would scream if those same dollars were diverted to Baltimore where there is more need.

It would be more equitable to let places like Rockville, Bethesda, Silver Spring or Potomac become their own school systems AND have a greater tax combination up to the state level to be distributed across the state to the most needy schools.

Many states allow a combination of county, city, township and independent school districts. In some states school systems are independent and don't align with the township or city boundaries. These work pretty well.

What would have to happen would be a change within the MD state legislature allowing independent school districts. The next step would be for the communities desiring this to petition to form one. It would be a far better situation for residents and students.

Large school systems always fail for a variety of reasons.

1. The organization becomes too large for employees trained in education to run. Someone with an educational background is simply not capable or qualified to run a 2B organization. Once a system reaches the size of MCPS the operational, financial management, and employee management exceed the capacity of administration to handle because the funding, internal desire and structure is not there to hire people outside of education with the background to run it.

2. It creates a system where the system acts in the interest of perpetuating itself rather than educating the students. The central office is 100% about holding onto higher paying jobs in a field that doesn't offer these very often. Teachers post all the time about the toxic environment, butt kissing requirements placed on them by the central office, the mentality of employees trying to get the cushy central office job so never doing what is right, on and on. This creates waste in a system that does not have extra money to waste. It impedes progress and improvement and ultimately leads to a system with no accountability which is exactly what we have in MCPS.

3. It creates a system so large that it no longer needs to listen or care about what the communities want. Its a magnet for education types who live in their own heads and want to experiment whatever trend catches their eye with no accountability to anyone. Its attracts people like the former superintendent Starr who want a platform to be famous while have no interest or ability to run a school system.

4. A large system will stamp out teacher innovation and treat teachers like scripted robots.

5. A large system by design can not be uniform across all the schools and meet the unique needs of differing communities. 
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