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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You kids go to the tops schools in the country taught by the top teachers in the country.  What would you do if you look at the lists that all of you look at and you don't see any Montgomery County Schools on it?

Look at the law firms your absentee husbands work for, what if they said we decided we want to be a 2nd or 3rd tier law firm so we are letting go of all the good lawyers and paying less for mediocre lawyers?

Quality gets quality.  Now go ahead and bitch about the teacher your kid has and then go put them in PG County schools and see them thrive.

And I am not a teacher
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MoCo already has higher pay than Fairfax and other systems in the area.  How much higher do we have to go to get the best?  We aren't competing with law firms, we are competing with these other systems.  Many, many taxpayers, like Federal employees, don't get raises.

The school system is ok., but I don't think it is as great as MoCo voters think it is. It certainly isn't great for gifted kids.  I have two kids in ES.  I think a lot of the reputation is based on the well-to do kids of phds, doctors, and lawyers that go to Wooton, Whitman, BCC, Walter Johnson, and Churchill.  Any system would look good with these kids.

Here is my problem.  The school board consists of apple ballot candidates.   These are union picked candidates.  This means that the union-endorsed candidates negotiate with themselves.   Taxpaying voters constantly give up the right to have their own interests represented in the room.  It doesn't matter who the union rolls out on the ballot, we will vote for any candidate with an apple on their sign.    If you don't like this, then stop voting for the apple ballot.  You will get another chance next fall.  We get what we deserve.[/quote]

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