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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Educating kids is an investment in all our futures. People who dismissively use the term “drain,” when it comes to educating certain children because they are the wrong color or had the misfortune to be born in a dangerous place are horrible individuals fully deserving of scorn.

You’ll claim you’re just being reasonable, or speaking in economic terms, but what goes around comes around.
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Wow!  I'm the PP to whom you are responding.  I said we should educate them, but we need a plan.  And, FWIW, what would happen in your house if you suddenly had unexpected guests and no place for them to sleep and not enough food?

Now, take a school system structured for a certain number of kids and suddenly have to accommodate in one year a thousand unexpected kids.  You need teachers, you need books, you need computers, you need specialists, you need translators, you need liaisons, etc., etc.  So, with limited funds that are already allocated, what do you do?  What is the plan?

Do you listen to SB meetings?  Do you understand how they argue and work to put the money where it belongs?  And, then you think it just magically appears in the pockets of our new arrivals?

Of course, we educate them.  But how?[/quote]

Seems overwrought.  Enrollment growth in FCPS has been relatively modest in recent years and the county is encouraging denser development that will bring down the percentage of households with school-age kids.[/quote]

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