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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sad, but honestly not surprising anymore.

Look at the numbers. McLean at 16,934. Langley at 16,881. Oakton at 16,676. Among the lowest per pupil funding levels in the county.

Meanwhile, many homeowners in these districts are paying 25,000 to 35,000 dollars per year in real estate taxes alone. And that is just one category. Add the county meals tax, personal property tax on vehicles, car registration fees, stormwater fees, dog license fees, recordation taxes, plus state income and sales taxes. The overall tax burden here is substantial.

Yet the areas contributing some of the highest property tax revenue per household are near the bottom in per student school spending.

We keep hearing that schools with higher poverty rates or academy programs receive more funding. But logically, that means families in certain districts are effectively subsidizing others while receiving less direct investment in their own schools. Whether one supports redistribution or not, it should at least be openly acknowledged and justified, not brushed aside as automatic or inevitable.

The gap is not minor. Some schools receive more than 3,000 dollars per student above McLean or Langley. Even Madison and Woodson are over 1,000 dollars higher. That is a meaningful difference.

Taxes continue to rise. Many residents feel county services are not improving proportionally. Infrastructure concerns, snow removal issues, uneven services, and now visible disparities in school funding.

This is exactly why people are leaving for lower tax states and counties. They would rather pay lower overall taxes and choose private schools or private services directly, where they believe they have more control and clearer value. Agree or disagree, that migration trend is real and it is not happening by accident.[/quote]

Disagree qnd you only have to look to Maryland to see how the W schools are very different from the rest of the county even though they have direct funding for schools through development. FCPS has done very well over the years by focusing on the entire school system. While I dont agree there need to be IB programs in poorer schools they were probably put there to actually make a school within a school like a mini TJ within the school to attract families. FCPS has 3 schools that fall behind the national average. They need to put their thinking caps on why this is and fix it. Oakton and Langley and McLean are doing just fine without more funding. FCPS just needs to use their funds wisely and stop making changes that are unneeded like their silly experiment with standards based grading. [/quote]

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