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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well if you want to be a sanctuary county and welcome all the poor immigrants, you are going to see higher enrollment and higher FARMS, ESOL, and special education needs, but much less taxes that are being collected to go towards education.  The middle class pays for every one of these FARMS kids.  The wealthy have all the breaks and loopholes.  They also don't care because they send their kids to the 180 private schools in the county alone.  The poor don't pay taxes.  The immigrants make more money than noted because they work under the table. so the middle class pay the majority.  How about that massive property tax increase last year?  Expect to see more in the future.

MCPS is stretched too thin.  The BOE motto is to just ask the county and state for more and then cry that they have to increase ratios instead of getting rid of upper administration bulk and stupid programs like immersion, HGC, magnets, etc.. that cost a ton of money and only help a small window of kids by lottery  What about the PEP program?  Millions wasted.  The state shouldn't have to keep giving so much for a poorly run overcrowded district.  The county?  If they want sanctuary as well as keep building apartments, condos, and townhouses, they need to fork over some more money instead of lining the pockets of the builders/politicians.  But they don't and the county continues to go on a massive decline.  Overcrowded, understaffed, building falling apart, and lack of security that keeps MCPS in the news weekly for sexual predators in the schools.

They also fudge their testing scores and grading to continue to look competitive when they are not.  All honors and AP scores get a whole point higher.  Most districts, it is only 0.5 higher.  Add that to a 79.5 and an 89.5 equals an A for a semester grade.  So if you get a 69.5 and a 79.5 in an honors course, you get an unweighted B and a weighted A for the year.  It is total BS.  And you wonder why all the kids were failing final exams?  Oh wait, no one wonders.  The county just got rid of them.  Why?  Because they were abysmal (60-70% failing.)  So instead of getting to the root of what is wrong and making sure these kids are prepared for college, they yank them for good.

It is pretty sad.

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Those expensive programs keep the smarter kids sticking with the county instead of moving to private. So it keeps up the SAT/ACT scores and grades.  They know how to play the game.  [/quote]

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