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[quote=Anonymous]After seeing a comment in the other thread about why Weast left ( https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/45/1309623.page ), I was trying to find more articles about it and came across this:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2011/02/25/the-last-lessons-of-jerry-weast-2

And thought some of the things mentioned are still applicable today.  Like how he said it can take six or seven years to get a new school.

But also this:

[People] are not coming here because of the good roads or the cheap taxes or the cheap houses. They are coming here for the schools. …And the state is $160 million behind in what they said they would get us.

And that's what I've been trying to say, for a good contingent of people, Montgomery County doesn't really offer much other than good schools.

If at one point MCPS was a high performing school system, surrounding areas have since caught up or surpassed it.  Then look at what people say the focus should be now, which is the overall population that is struggling to meet proficiency levels.  So they're okay in diluting the countywide programs to provide greater access to higher level classes, but might not be as high.  And they're proposing in mixing things up with one of the top ranked schools in the state.  I think it is okay to focus on struggling groups but it shouldn't be at the expense of the higher performers.

If MCPS does things right, I think Crown has a potential to be a decent school.  Maybe not as top tier as Wootton currently is.

But MCPS and Montgomery County needs to be careful that they don't end up alienating (maybe not the right term) the population that do value the higher standards of education and was the factor in choosing where they did to live.  Some of the posters on here can say things like, Fine leave.  But see how MCPS and Montgomery County will do as they see that tax base leave or choose elsewhere.[/quote]

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