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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If only we could find a way to keep wealthier families from supplementing their children’s education at home and over the summer, that would do wonders for promoting equity, too.[/quote]

Here's a more likely scenario.

Forget any PTA issues. Parents will just stop contributing to PTA's altogether.  Instead, when they have complaints, the ones who can afford it will just hire lawyers and sue or file with Maryland IG / DoE OCR more.  Schools will go ivory tower more than they already are, which will tick parents off even more.  MCPS may think that's a good thing, up until they start getting their budgets cut.

MCPS tries to promote "equity" over "equality" of services, so the parents that can afford to pull their kids out into private schools.  The parents that can't afford to pull out will lobby politicians to gerrymander even more or, worse, cut MCPS' budget by giving out vouchers.  MCPS becomes like many other state's Public School systems and stops offering the quality services it was known for, which increases the slide.  DC seems to have a lot of Charter Schools and the Public School systems in the South / Southeast are where parents are happy when kids get into any College or Community College at all.

Until MCPS leadership realizes that "equity" is inherently discriminatory, and merit-based and need-based "equality" of services is the way to go - I don't think anything at MCPS will change.[/quote]

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