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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wish people would realize teachers unions have relatively little power in Maryland because it’s a “right to fire” state.

Maryland needs universal pre-K but at this rate it will never happen. [/quote]

No, it won’t because we simply can’t afford it.  We are going to have no choice but to cut a lot of government programs/services.  It sure isn’t the time to add a very large expense.  And ignoring expense, at a time when we are trying to create greater space in schools, adding one or two more grades would have the exact opposite result of making schools far more crowded.[/quote]

If you think universal pre-K is expensive, only imagine how expensive it is to NOT have universal pre-K.[/quote]

Seriously. MoCo is one of the richest counties in the country. Saying we can’t afford it is ridiculous. Figure it out.[/quote]

It is already falling well behind other areas because of high taxes and lack of jobs because of a terrible business environment.  You are already seeing people choose or leave to VA/DC.  Major tax increases will only further drive out people who provide the tax base for the already generous social services.  If the tax base deteriorates further, we won’t even be able to fund what we already do, never mind new programs.

Flippant statements like “figure it out” pretend there is some unlimited money tree out there that can be tapped indefinitely.[/quote]

Pay $ now or pay $$$ later. Your choice.[/quote]
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There is no choice.[/b]  The state is losing millions of dollars or tax revenue due to the pandemic, state shutdown, massive unemployment not seen since the Great Depression.  Where do you think the money for universal pre-K is going to come from?  The state and county are already depleting their reserves for the current crisis.  There will be no extra money and state and county budgets are going to have to have across the boards cuts.  Where do you think the money will come to add an expensive new program will come from?   We are going to be lucky for the schools to be able to continue the programs they currently have.  And I expect that schools will be cutting programs and services in the next year or two because reduced budgets will not be able to support everything they do now.

In addition, as another PP pointed out, schools are going to have to come up with creative ways to reduce the number of children in school at any given time to enforce social distancing as much as possible.  There is no way that you can add an entire class of students for universal pre-K unless you expect the pre-K classes to be held in the parking lots.

The idea of adding universal pre-K was already a long shot before the current pandemic.  With the current crisis, considering it is just a delusional drug-inspired dream.[/quote]

There absolutely is a choice, and we've made it.  You know that ounce of prevention vs a pound of cure saying? We've decided we'd rather pay for the pound of cure.
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If you think there is a choice, where, praytell, do you intend to get the money for creating such a program?  It's really easy to make a choice but how do you plan to pay for it?  The state no longer has reserves, they've spent that on pandemic response.  The state is going to have significantly decreased income next year.  Where do you plan to get the money to pay for this program when every agency and department will be taking cuts to their annual budget to account for the revenue shortfall?

It's all well and fine to say we've made a choice, but the choice was made by the circumstances.  You can't create an expensive program when you have no money to pay for it.  [/quote]

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