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[quote=Anonymous]I am not sure where your data is coming from where immigrants are UMC and high income and the kids of diplomats. Do we have that....yes. But that is not the majority. We are a sanctuary city and our immigrants are coming from poor war torn countries. It is a huge drain on our system. Huge. We provide tons of free social services particularly at the infant/toddler and school level. And not only do we provide free services, those services are accompanied by the use of interpreters and then interpreting documents. It's very expensive. In schools, our ESL populations are growing, which again, requires funding, services. Our special education population is growing. We are already having trouble staffing schools and in particular specialists like special educators and speech pathologists.

Montgomery County is still a great place to raise kids.

[quote=Anonymous]Secondly, Montgomery County  hardly has a generous social welfare system.

Thirdly, the immigrants of Montgomery County tend to be stratified across income from high income,  diplomat kids to working class/UMC/first gen suburban kids, to lower middle class new immigrant kids.  All seem to go to school and perform reasonably well, and there isnt any feelings of isolation from other kids. Montgomery County is a great place to raise kids despite what the handwringers here say.

Immigrant kids actually are the highest achievers in school so I am not sure why that is used as some sort of harbinger of decline. The decline is the school board giving up on something called teaching  after COVID. Grading is almost nonexistent these days.[/quote][/quote]

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