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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I am for our kids. I support the principle that my taxes support the education of our children in the public system. While the grade assignments work for many kids it doesn't for my kids. Since my kids are required to stay in their assigned grade classrooms even though they are 3 to 4 grade levels above the current MCPS standards and cannot place out or test out, can we get a refund? For the kids for whom MCPS cannot accommodate (e.g., math) can citizens op out? We will gladly invest the refunded $12,000/kid/yr (this is a back of the envelope calculation) for other alternatives. This is a win win situation for both parties.[/quote]

[quote]This is a slightly different question. [b]I agree, MPCS doesn't serve the kids who are in the top 90-95% and something needs to be done[/b]. Many, many MoCo kids are 3-4 grade levels above the current MCPS standards. Magnet kids are 7-8 grade levels above MCPS standards, or more. Possible answers include charters (I would support) or refunding your taxes to you so you can go private (I wouldn't support, because only rich families would be able to top up the $12K to afford $35K at private). But these are separate questions from "should we pay MoCo teachers a decent salary to teach the majority of kids" and maybe deserve a different thread.[/quote]

I disagree.  MCPS aprox. $2 billion budget.  Finds a way to give teachers a 7% raise but can't find a way to meet the needs of 90 to 95% of our children so they are stuck in a system they pay for for a decade?  Does allowing these able and capable students to appropriately advance in certain subjects (e.g., math ) wipe out the MCPS budget?  Does it add anything to the budget?  How much has mcps saved by the elimination of math pathways and the prohibition of any upward movement?  The MCPS leadership is paid handsomely.  I want to know how much MCPS saves, if any, by this prohibition for a subject (math) that is the essential gateway in our technological age we live in?   On a different note, are children that are not performing allowed to move down (e.g., math)?  Is the prohibition in both directions on the pathway?[/quote]

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