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[quote=Anonymous][quote]It also not universal. In school systems that are not as large, a public school can raise the bar. There are more financial resources available to the school. Kids in higher income, higher educated smaller communities create a study body similar to the private schools. Teachers can teach more challenging work and it isn't disallowed because the local school system is following a prescribed county wide curriculum designed for a different demographic. You see this more in some New England areas.[quote]

[/quote]This is actually not a good thing for society, though I agree that it's very nice for the affluent people who are able to send their children to "public" school systems that exclude poor children.[/quote]

Of course. However, its hard to argue that a smaller school system in an affluent area should lower its standards when it doesn't need to because children elsewhere don't have the same access.

In big school systems, the wealthier areas subsidize the poorer areas. Class sizes are much better in poorer areas than wealthier areas because resources are not allocated equally. MCPS takes it further than most systems in disallowing parents from fundraising to replace the lost teachers in their areas. DC is a good example where the vaulted JLKM ES schools only receive half the funding and staff allocation of the poorer schools. DC allows parents to fundraise to replace those staff so you still see 2 teachers in a room of 24 Kindergarteners rather than 1 teacher for 24 Kindergartens in MCPS.

This one really bugs me. I'm OK with more central resources going away from the wealthier schools and into the poor schools. I don't think its ethical though that MCPS disallows parents from fundraising to achieve equal ratios. They could have a rule that parents can't fundraise to provide resources that exceed a Title 1 school but there is something wrong with requiring that wealthier schools have larger classes despite other options.  [/quote]

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