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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course we taxpayers (or rather, we citizens) have influence. We elect the county school board. We elect the county council. We elect the county executive.

It may not be as local as you want it to be, but it's still local.[/quote]

If you think you have any influence at all on how our school system is run, you are delusional.[/quote]

I don't have much influence at all on how our school system is run, because I haven't tried to influence it (beyond voting for school board candidates).

How have you tried to influence how our school system is run? Have you been a regular at meetings, put together plans with realistic and feasible suggestions for change, acknowledged that you won't get everything you want, led your local PTA, worked with the MCCPTA, gotten the press involved, organized other parents to write letters, talked to school board members, talked to county council members, run for the school board yourself?[/quote]

I worked hard for years on a few different issues at my kids' school, with zero results thanks to the bloated bureaucracy that is MCPS.  I had exactly zero success and eventually gave up.

I have a close family member whose child is at NHE and who has worked hard on this issue.  To be told no so dismissively after having put in so much time, effort and energy is disheartening (to say the least).

With 150K+ students, MCPS is not a local school system.  It is an enormous and IME impenetrable machine, uninterested in its constituents, a select few of which are occasionally given five minutes to speak at school board meetings.

Compare that to the school system I grew up in, which is town-based and which seeks out the views of the parent community.  THAT is truly local and representative of the taxpayers.[/quote]

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