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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, one benefit would be that at least some low-income kids would have access to the crazy 6-digit amounts that rich schools’ PTAs raise every year for “enrichment.” Lower and middle income schools are busy cutting Box Tops to get a few hundred dollars while the rich schools are pulling in obscene amounts to be used for new technology, books, field trips, after-school activities. This is not a case of loving your children more or valuing education more. Normal people just can’t cut $1000 checks for the PTA.[/quote]

Exactly. It’s simply about spreading the wealth—in a mandatory or forced but “charitable” way.[/quote]

Our rich school donates upwards of 20K a year to Title 1 schools.  So it's happening on some levels.  But that 20K will pale compared to the costs of what MCPS is spending on the boundary survey and the chaos that will ensue when they make the recommendations.[/quote]

Chaos! CHAOS, I TELL YOU!!!!!!!

Which recommendations are they going to make?

It seems appropriate here to remind people that [b]public schools are a public good[/b] and that taxes are not user fees. If you want the user fee model, that's what private schools are for.[/quote]

Exactly. So as part of MCPS providing public schools for the public good, they need to really evaluate if long bus rides are worth it for the public good. [/quote]

That is why geographic proximity is 1 of the 4 factors that MCPS uses for boundary decisions. There are four factors, and geographic proximity is one of them.[/quote]

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