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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a terrible idea. MCPS can't afford to add buses so high school students aren't catching the bus at 6:20 am, but they can afford to subsidize 80 percent of the cost to bus private school kids? It feels like another example of MCPS and the county paying more attention to wealthier families. [/quote]. These parents are paying for public school and yes, buses via their tax dollars and not utilizing the system.  Do you have a problem with your kids receiving that benefit?[/quote]

Public schools are supported (mainly) by taxes, not user fees. If private-school students have a right to use public school buses because their parents pay taxes that go to the public schools, then so does everybody else who pays taxes that go to the public schools. Instead, it works like this:

1. Everybody pays taxes to support the public schools.
2. Public school funding goes to children in public schools (with a few exceptions).

One exception is when the public school cannot provide a free, appropriate education, and so the public school district pays for the child to go to a private school. Another exception, arguably, is when society benefits from busing private-school students because busing private-school students takes cars off the road.

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