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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just about property values.  It’s about self segregation.  [/quote]

It's also about taxes.  On average MCPS is subpar, there are way more average and way below average schools in the county.  I pay taxes.  Considerable amounts of taxes.  Why should my kids not get a good education.

We need to bust these good schools up, until they figure out how to distribute educational opportunities.

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What a weird way of thinking. How does wrecking good schools help anyone? Focus and efforts should be on improving the other schools. Of course your kids should get a good education - they deserve it. Frankly, they deserve it regardless of how much you pay in taxes. But "busting up" a good school is not going to magically improve the education your kids get.

Parents across the county need to stop treating each other as the enemy. Everyone wants the best for their kids and all our schools should be safe and effective regardless of parent income level. Parents bashing each other for wanting the exact same thing they want (good schools) just allows MCPS to escape accountability for their mismanagement. MCPS has an enormous budget. They have the ability to hire more teachers to decrease class sizes, pay teachers better to attract good ones, restore discipline to classrooms, and price after school programming for high risk kids. But they don't do any of that. Instead, they are central office heavy and have implemented ridiculous policies that allow kids to get away with anything, pull As without actually learning anything, etc. But the blame lies with MCPS. Not with parents at Wootton or Churchill or Gaithersburg or Damascus, all of whom are actually united in wanting a good education for their kids. So I genuinely don't understand why those parents choose to fix their anger on each other as though it's galling that they should also want their children in a good and safe school 
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I just feel these educational heirarchies are destructive in and of themselves.  So, meet destruction with destruction.[/quote]

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