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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to interject as reasonably as I can that Montgomery County does need to educate [i]all [/i]of its students as well as it can. It's possible that the old system worked better for the few kids at the very top, and it's possible their mothers are disproportionately represented on this board. But it is really not the county's problem if you want your kindergartener to do 2 hours of challenging homework at night or your 4th grader to be taking algebra. And it's also not the county's problem that you paid a million dollars for your house because you heard it was the best school system ever, and now you find that in fact the school system has to educate all the other kids in the county too.[/quote]
But it may be county's problem if the top students start exiting towards private or Northern Virginia.
Actually it is not difficult to educate top, bottom or middle with a good system. The current problem is "ignoring the top students".
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I am the pp, and I think this is an interesting question. Does the county care if some of its top students leave the system? This is not private school, so it's not like they are losing money if people leave. They get the tax dollars anyway. In fact, losing some kids would mean less overcrowded schools. True, it might mean fewer National Merit Scholars and such, but it seems like the county benefits more by increasing levels of proficiency overall than by maintaining a small number of superstar students. [/quote]

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