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I am the pp, and I think this is an interesting question. Does the county care if some of its top students leave the system? This is not private school, so it's not like they are losing money if people leave. They get the tax dollars anyway. In fact, losing some kids would mean less overcrowded schools. True, it might mean fewer National Merit Scholars and such, but it seems like the county benefits more by increasing levels of proficiency overall than by maintaining a small number of superstar students. [/quote]
Are you suggesting that the county would be happy if say the top 10% students exit the public school? Until recently the county was attracting educated, upper middle income people based to some extent on its schools. That has benefited the county from all angles, including increasing the tax revenue you mention. Now if pendulum starts swinging the other way, I don't agree with you that this is something the county does not care.[/quote]

Well I'm not a school administrator so I guess I couldn't say. But I don't think MCPS is frightened by the prospect of 10% of their students leaving. I do think they are frightened by the prospect of exponential growth (the result of all those educated, upper middle income professionals rushing in) coupled with budget pressures in a bad economy. Most schools are over capacity, especially in the "good" areas people on here like to promote. Right now MCPS is trying very hard to address the huge gap in test scores by income and ethnicity, and I don't think they are worried as much about whether the scores at the tippy top decline slightly.[/quote]

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