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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This is based on the assumption that educational opportunities are a zero-sum game. I.e., if it helps you, it hurts me. It doesn't have to be that way.[/quote]

Part of the problem is that MCPS has made it a very zero sum game and has a track record of ignoring any need or issue coming from non-poverty areas. MCPS is famous for saying things that it recognizes that it is not serving the high achieving students but it doesn't matter because there are too many low performing students to care about the rest. MCPS looks for short cuts so doing things like placing magnets in bad schools to change the optics of the school performance, dumbing down the curriculum, removing exams, reducing math acceleration, and not allowing PTAs to find aides in schools with high ratios is more about trying to throttle higher achieving students to make up the gap than helping low achieving students perform better.

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It's tough to put a robotics lab into a school where only 50% of 9th graders are passing federal standards in reading and math.

We know this, because Wheaton is our sister school, so whatever we donate to our HS's fund, 10% of it goes to Wheaton. We've even had theft issues at Wheaton for things the fund and PTAs jointly put in to the HS (i.e. stolen computers).

It's really a sad state of affairs. Academic basics aren't mastered, people whine for state-of-the-art everything, then they steal and physically wreak what is given. [/quote]t

I actually have a student at Wheaton. They have a robotics lab and the robotics team kicks ass. The school is three years old and still looks very new. My child has never witnessed any destruction of school property and has only heard about one kid taking a chrome book home.

I thought our rich "sister" school only donated money for the after prom.

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Were you around in hs 5 years ago? Pre-Wheaton program within Wheaton?  It wasn’t pretty.
Check out who funded the robotics lab 2-5 years ago. And what kids got major ssl hours going over there. [/quote]

Ive had a child at Wheaton for 4 years. The very tiny magnet program started 7 years ago. Yes, the old building wasn't pretty, but it has always had a very fostering community with involved teachers and administration. I'm not aware of how the robotics program was funded.

Maybe your angry about having to share some money with Wheaton (again I've only heard about donations to the after prom, which all high schools are required to do. I personally think the extreme costs of after prom is money that could be spent on better things to benefit the whole school), but your perception of the school is misguided.[/quote]

NP. I don't see any anger in this thread, but personally I'd be quite unhappy if I donated something to any school that was claiming "educational disparity" and had it damaged by its students. [/quote]

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