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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP. I didn't intend for the question to be about people who fake their addresses or break the rules to get into a specific school, but rather about whether people think that if they pay more in property taxes they have the right to better schools. I happen to think they don't, personally. Also, there seems to be a poster on here who thinks that the reason, say, Whitman is considered a better cluster is that its neighborhoods are worth more and pay more in property taxes. This is not correct. All Montgomery County taxes go to fund all the schools. Their taxes don't buy them better schools any more than they buy them better trash removal, park maintenance, or tree trimming.[/quote]

DC spends $18,000 per student.
Fairfax County spends $13,000 per student.
MoCo spends $15,000 per student.

Yet obviously, DC has the worst schools by far.

The point is, Whitman isn't better because of $$$.  I remember when "W" schools couldn't even afford books, but they were still the best in MoCo.  It's the kids who live in that district and attend those schools, and to some extent their parents too.

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I'm the OP, and I don't disagree that Whitman is great, and that this is because of the kids who go there. My only beef is with parents who say they deserve a great school because they pay so much in taxes or paid so much for their house. [/quote]

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