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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I fail to see how declining enrollment is a problem for me. My kids are in FCPS, at a school where class sizes have been getting steadily smaller and teacher attention to each student is therefore able to increase. The schmucks sending their kids to private are still paying property, car, and sales tax (not to mention federal taxes, which pays around half of per-student costs). By all means, please pull your kids out. I won't shed a tear.[/quote]

Schools are staffed according to enrollment.  Staff can be eliminated.  I was a first grade teacher.  One year, we lost a first grade teacher because of an unexpected drop in enrollment.  Her last day was Halloween that year.  The next school day, all the other first grade teachers gained six new kids.  Not good for the kids. Not good for the teachers--especially the one who was cut--last hired.  She was an absolutely terrific teacher who did find a position at another school.
The sad part--she had a couple of students who were Problem kids.  She was magical with them.  Those two did not respond well to the change.  I was lucky not to get one of them.[/quote]

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