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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1990: Let’s put the magnet over here because these schools are underenrolled and none of the wealthy people want their kids to go here 
2022: All the wealthy people: “it’s not fair the magnet is all the way over there.”

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Wealthy?  Please.  Heaven knows the apartment complexes in Rockville, Germantown, Grosvenor; or just Gaithersburg, Montgomery Village just scream out "wealth" to me.

We all know the down county magnet only catered only to the TPES home school area and no one else.  Same went for Poolesville.  No one in the center, northwest or southeast of the county can access either one easily.  A child can easily spend an hour or hour and a half one way.

Want to claim "oh, just move"?  I'd much rather change the voting rules so that district reps are only voted on by their own district voters to represent the interests of all children in Montgomery County.  This is the board "elected" primarily by Silver Spring voters.  That needs to change.[/quote]

Okay, so let's say you got rid of at-large council members and had ONLY members representing "wards" or "districts" within MoCo. Montgomery County has roughly 1 million residents. Currently, MCPS has 7 school board members. Let's take that up to 10 just for funsies. So now you have 10 school board members, each representing about 100,000 people. East county is STILL going to have more voting members than west county OR the ag reserve area just by virtue of population density. [/quote]

Democracy is so wrong! It should be based on taxes paid!  That way we west county people could dominate! At least that's what we tell ourselves all the time so it must be true.[/quote]

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