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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A PP poster somewhere upthread said that 95% of Bethesda/Potomac would vote to leave MCPS in a heartbeat. Why not let them leave? There is no integration between the schools. Does anyone in the east even know where Wootton is or do you really go out there often?

Out of curiosity, I googled around to read some of the back story on areas that have split off from large school systems. Its seldom about money being disproportionately spent and almost always about the larger system intervening in a negative manner or completely ignoring the area leaving. The area leaving often pays the larger system and real estate values have risen in all the areas that split off. The larger school systems gets its money, the splitting area gets a responsive education school district and real estate values rise. Its only a lose situation to the administration of the large system that now can no longer take credit for the performance of the area that split off.

Class size is a good example of why the W schools should leave. In many systems, student:teacher ratios are much lower in poorer schools but the system allows the affluent areas to fund raise to put an aide in the classroom. Even DCPS allows this. MCPS does not. The argument that is unfair to Focus and Title 1 schools  to allow the W schools to fund raise to put an aide in a lower elementary school class with 29 kids is bull shit. The W school would not be achieving a ratio that is better than the Focus school only one that is equal to the Focus school without taking any resources from the Focus school. The MCPS rationale is that since students in a W school already have non-school advantages then the only way to equal things out is to create a disadvantageous situation within school - as MCPS controls the schools.

The Magnet fiasco is along the same lines. MCPS didn't decide to increase spots in the Magnet to bring in more URM students and UMC students from the east. MCPS decided to leave the kids in the W schools in their home schools and remove this option to equal things out again. As the W students already have advantages outside of school the only way to equal things out is to create a disadvantageous situation in the schools - which MCPS controls.

Curriculum 2.0 and ending math acceleration is another example. There is a problem within MCPS with the achievement gap so MCPS decides to go at not by focusing on bringing up the bottom but by holding back the top.

[b]You can't really blame anyone in the W schools from wanting out from under MCPS. [/b][/quote]
Which W schools parents are you talking about? The few disgruntled ones on DCUM maybe but not any of the many parents I know. This is fake news to them.[/quote]

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