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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet Baltimore City is a separate school district from Baltimore County. You don't have to incorporate a new town or city to have a separate school system.  On the west coast there are many instances where separate smaller school districts broke away from their larger county or city level-wide district decades ago. Many of these smaller districts are geographically contiguous but draw their boundaries across towns, across part of a city and town, across part of an unincorporated area and city or town etc etc. Courts do not like it when smaller areas try to split off and draw a gerrymandered area but there is often precedent for supporting local representation where disfunction in a larger school system exists.

Would this be easy? No, MCPS would fight this with everything that it has. It would put far more effort into maintaining its own power base than it has ever put forward in actually educating students. This is exactly why it should be pursued.

A great example is the recent experiment with grading in elementary school. Parents were never consulted about doing away with normal measurements and adopting the P standard system. Parents were furious and complained. Many teachers didn't like it either. MCPS could care less - it was their little experiment. They met any complaint with the usual arrogance of oh well people always complain, oh well we're better than Detroit, oh well you just don't understand the brilliance behind our new little system. It was a pile of BS! The MCPS apologist posters was all over these boards constantly with her two line condensing little posts with no logic. Now, MCPS has done away with their little experiment and they are actually surprised that they aren't receiving lots of pats on their backs for doing it. It doesn't occur to them that they screwed ES students for several years. They don't care, they get to experiment with the kids as much as they want. The system is so big that it is completely unaccountable to the people that it serves.

Smaller systems aren't perfect by any means but they don't allow the level of corruption, ineptitude and utter lack of accountability that exists with MCPS. The W schools have cause to separate and it is probably the only way to protect their schools and students from MCPS.

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What you are proposing is a state issue, not a local issue. Per the Maryland constitution, the state is responsible for educating its children. They have formally delegated this authority counties. They are not going to upend the entire state system of education to allow for the formation of the breakaway Republic of Bethesda. So sorry. [/quote]
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Seriously - stop and educate yourself with the provided links before making proposals that make no sense in the actual, existing framework of the law.[/quote]

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