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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poolesville has broken bathrooms, no heat, broken windows with cardboard covering, leaking ceilings, mold and mildew. Cry me a river.

The board gives themselves raises an is paying a half million on a boundary study. Years ago they spent millions in the study for high schoolers going to school later.

Soon, they will complain the state doesn’t give them enough even though they are only 25% of the funds from the budget. The county and piggy back taxes SHOULD be paying for infrastructure and every year it doesn’t.

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This.

How the board can give themselves raises is appalling. The way they spend, why would Hogan want to give them more when the county doesn’t give more, nor does it spend it correctly. And like another poster mentioned in another thread. Why so much upper administration. Why all these expensive outsourced independent studies? Outsource curriculum every 3 years. Change testing all the time, which means more training money spent. Don’t even get me started on the promethium boards. Why all the free parent seminars and TED talks. Why all the special optional programs that costs millions to run. I know Eastern is a magnet, but these programs are NOT a priority over keeping kids safe and wam in schools. I would love to see the financials and a complete audit of funds. How can such an expensive county with so much wealth and excessive taxes. A county with 180 private schools that keep at least another 20K of kids that pay taxes towards our school system, but don’t utilize the pubic school system. It is a joke. [/quote]

PP, Eastern is NOT a magnet. Eastern houses a magnet. It also houses a program for emotionally disabled students. And a program for ESOL students with little to no prior education, many of whom are also dealing with trauma experienced in their home countries. And then there are 600 or so neighborhood students from some of the county’s poorest households. The people complaining don’t just want a decent building for 300 gifted kids. Almost a thousand children are trying to learn in conditions that are downright unhealthy.[/quote]

The PP said nothing about it being just a magnet. She said she thinks magnets and other program costs over basic safety and infrastructure is not a good way to spend the budget. But she realizes Eastern has a magnet and people probably would veto what she says. [/quote]

Doesn’t she realize that those students are entitled under state law to an appropriate education? What does she think is so unnecessarily expensive about the 300 magnet students at Eastern? Zero attention would be paid to the building if the magnet was dismantled.[/quote]
It's not 300, it's only 100![/quote]

100 in each grade.. 6th.. 7th.. 8th, right that makes  300 PP.[/quote]

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