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[b]And I'm willing to increase what I pay in taxes to help fix it.[/b] I do not believe that solely moving kids around to balance out diversity numbers is going to do anything because all it's doing is shifting SOME kids to the "better" schools while leaving or moving kids around in the shitty schools. MCPS needs to be fixing shitty schools. That's the bottom line and all of these talks regarding boundaries are just another way of absolving them of this responsibility.  [/quote]

Just for high schools, MCPS needs to build three new ones: Northwood, Woodward, Crown. The new Seneca Valley HS building cost $150 million. So that's $450 million just for high schools in the next few years. 
Now, look at just one elementary school: South Lake ES, in Gaithersburg. 2019-20 enrollment 897, capacity 694, built in 1972 and never renovated.

At-a-glance: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02564.pdf
School boundaries: http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/SouthLakeES.pdf

Please do look at the South Lake ES school boundaries, because they're bananas. Also consider that the assigned middle school for South Lake ES is Neelsville MS, which (1) is way over there in Germantown and (2) was built in 1981 and has never been renovated.

So: how much are you willing to increase what you pay in taxes, in order to avoid boundary changes?

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