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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enjoy your sour grapes because your above-average learner didn't get into a special program. If your child is so damn brilliant then[b] it shouldn't matter if they got into the program.[/b] [/quote]

Oh.  Okay.  (Not really sour grapes although you seem to enjoy if it was?  Says a lot about you.)

Magnet program isn't so special anymore due to the lottery watering down the program.  They just aren't the best of the best anymore.  My point was that it's MCPS upper-level corruption that's penalizing families other than ours, but that's not something the current board cares about.  They're on a holy war to punish children based upon their skin color.

To supplement the computer instruction (the real difference at TPMS or Argyle for example), we went the tutoring route and now pay for private tutors.  The bonus is that private tutoring is exceptionally flexible with many options available, albeit at a financial cost.  Drones, robots, 3-D printers, plus computer programming.  Not everyone can put money into that.[/quote]

It's a public school system and you should assume that all the needs of your kids will not be met.  There is not enough resources for everyone, unless you want to pay higher taxes.  My son gets the minimal amount of speech therapy at his middle school (1 hr a month) and I'm not happy about that.  What do I do about it? I supplement outside of school. [/quote]

Great.  I'm sure you're exactly the type of parent that MCPS wants to have.  You're already complacent and ready to raise taxes.

MCPS spends a billion dollars.  There was another thread in the fall - MCPS was 14th(?) in best-funded programs across the nation?  So how is it possible that it doesn't have the support programs that reflect that level of funding?  Remember that MCPS used to have the best educational program in the DC area so why did it go into the toilet?

How can MCPS spend $168.7 million to lease electric buses (that no one is sure the county power grid can fully support), $11M on hiring outside attorneys to defend when they break the law, afford how many six-figure administrators or pay for all these "studies" that their six-figure administrator's can't do because they're too incompetent - yet can't switch another classroom to CES or Magnet?  Don't have enough funding?  Hmm.[/quote]

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