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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Going to a non-neighborhood school sucks.  I did that, and hated ithe commute and not living near my friends.  We moved to MoCo from PG solely because of schools and certainly would not have done that if I didn’t know they could attend a neighborhood school.  
[b]The dirty truth is that MoCo is using the rich folks’ tax base to find all the county schools and services. [/b] One of the top reasons people move to MoCo is for the neighborhood public schools.  Without them, I’d like in DC and cut my commute in half .  It’s also true for the state—MoCo pays a dispoprtionate amount of the state’s revenue.  It’s too easy to leave MoCo and find a perfectly nice house elsewhere, so if you remove the main incentive for upper income people to live here, you’ll likely see it in your revenue stream.
Fwiw, I had never heard of a W school before moving here.  We just wanted a suburban neighbor close to metro where kids attended the local schools—most of the kids in our PG neighborhood went to privates. [/quote]

Yes, the wealthy pay a large portion of the taxes, they also benefit from the services (for example, if the companies they own employ Montgomery County residents, they benefit from the education those residents got here).

School systems all over the country are required to spend extra money on students with additional needs (low-income kids, kids with disabilities, and English language learners). MCPS receives extra funding from the Federal government and the state based on the numbers of students in these groups. It MUST spend the federal dollars on those students (that is what Title I schools are). It is not required to spend all of the state dollars on those students, and it does not. So the wealthy students actually benefit from the low-income students, because the school system gets extra dollars based on the number of low-income students but it just throws that money into the general budget.[/quote]

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