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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course we taxpayers (or rather, we citizens) have influence. We elect the county school board. We elect the county council. We elect the county executive.

It may not be as local as you want it to be, but it's still local.[/quote]

If you think you have any influence at all on how our school system is run, you are delusional.[/quote]

I don't have much influence at all on how our school system is run, because I haven't tried to influence it (beyond voting for school board candidates).

How have you tried to influence how our school system is run? Have you been a regular at meetings, put together plans with realistic and feasible suggestions for change, acknowledged that you won't get everything you want, led your local PTA, worked with the MCCPTA, gotten the press involved, organized other parents to write letters, talked to school board members, talked to county council members, run for the school board yourself?[/quote]

I don't necessarily disagree with your main idea, but I do not think this topic is the place to make that argument. The two communities involved did make a huge effort on this issue over the course of a couple years. They are still working on an appeal to the BOE. I do not live in the communities, but have friends that do. Please don't demean their efforts on this issue by suggesting they just didn't try hard enough.[/quote]

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