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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the enraged poster's position. If she is an involved parent and supplementing her kids education like every other parent in the higher performing schools then her kid should be performing fine. If she's capable of posting on DCUM she's capable of supplementing. Why should she be rezoned into a better school system even if she didn't pay higher housing costs? Her kids aren't part of the achievement gap. [/quote]

I'm not the PP to whom you refer as "enraged," but I agree with PPs who point out the problems with the system as it is currently structured.  We have huge problems with the achievement gap in MCPS which IMO are a direct result of residential economic segregation.  Huge.

To your question about why she (anyone) should be "rezoned into a  better school system even if she didn't pay higher housing costs," my response is that (as has been repeatedly pointed out on this thread) we live in a SINGLE school system/district.  The point of a county-based school system is the distribution of resources over a large population.

To your question about why should she care, what with her kids not being part of the achievement gap and her being "an involved parent and supplementing her kids education like every other parent in the higher performing schools":  Well, many of us think in terms much broader than that.  Many of us are concerned not only about our own children, but about the community generally and the children who live here.  I am a well-educated professional and Silver Spring resident.  My kids are in magnets, they are heading to college, they will be FINE.  There is no question in my mind about that.  But many kids within a stone's throw of my house will NOT be fine, and I feel some responsibility to them, as well.  I don't operate in "I've got mine" terms. [/quote]

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