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[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]

This - so much this.  The parents from the wealthier parts of MoCo who have their child at the magnet are usually slightly appalled on first view because the facilities are so much less than the facilities at their neighborhood schools.  They grin and bear it because the program is worth it.  That said, ALL the kids, both neighborhood and otherwise, deserve to have facilities that are on par with the facilities in other parts of the county.[/quote]

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