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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ those are all great things, but people are complaining already about huge class sizes, lack of more magnets, etc... to address those things cost more $.  If we want all these great things, we need to increase taxes.[/quote]

Nothing above would cost more money.  The ratios would stagger from lowest to highest based on grade need.  The aide or paraeducator would spend more time in the lower 1-2 classes than the higher 1-2 classes.  Nothing about that cost more money.

And the county does not need more magnets.  Magnets are a waste of resources and their only goal for MCPS is to bring up test scores in otherwise failing schools.  Any programs that are given to kids by sheer luck (after only knowing all the info you need) need to be removed.  HGC, Magnets, IB, Immersion.  They are tainted and unfair and extremely costly to run, to only benefit a very small percentage of kids.  If they track the higher kids in each grade and give the exceptional ones some challenging work above that and have teachers teaching to them (instead of a quick worksheet and reading chapter books at a desk 70% of the day) they wouldn't need these programs.  All high schools offer AP programs.  They don't need the Magnet and IB diploma programs.  Time to get back to teaching EVERY kid a good education.  [/quote]
I disagree. I love that MCPS has magnets.  [b]You'd see a lot of the smarter kids move out of mcps if they got rid of magnets.  I certainly wouldn't have moved here if there weren't magnet programs. [/b]I don't agree with tracking at a young age. It pigeon holes them.   [/quote]

Hate to break it to you but only a small percentage get into Magnets and it isn't always the smartest kids.  If you moved here for a magnet program, there are 100 more sending their kids to private because the basic education sucks and lacks any direct teaching to certain levels in younger grades.  Most privates in the area have huge wait lists.  If MCPS was so great wouldn't everyone just go there?  if the Magnets are so great, why not offer a smaller version in every middle school?  You are looking at it only from your side.  I had a child in a HGC.  It was terribly long day for them just to get a little extra.  It wasn't anything that great.  And she lost her home school friendships and decided no magnet.  They aren't appealing to everyone and it really pushes a child away from their neighborhood and home school.  Tiger moms don't seem to care but it happens.   [/quote]

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