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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It comes down to money.  Are people willing to support a supplemental tax to give MCPS the budget they requested from MoCo?  Or an increase in property taxes?  Are people willing to acknowledge that some kids need remedial help and need a longer school day to accomplish that?  Everyone does not enter MCPS with the same educational background—if we acknowledge that, MCPS could provide a better education for everyone.

I can only speak from my perspective of having a child in a non public placement.  This placement is viewed as a last resort, detrimental to a child’s academic success, the place no one wants their kid to go.  But it’s the right fit for my kid, it’s the place where he is successful and happy, where he’s grown to enjoy school and learning.  Keeping him in a mainstream classroom in the name of equity would have been a horrible outcome.  Different kids need different things.[/quote]

We just approved the largest budget increase in MCPS history. How is it that you're honing in on taxpayer willingness as the problem here?

The budget is currently over $3 billion. If that's not enough, what is? And if we fund it at whatever amount above what we're currently funding, what accountability measures are in place to give we, the taxpayers, any semblance of ROI?[/quote]

Ask yourself what you want for your kid and then assume that 100K others kids should get the same.  What would you be willing to pay for that.  Speaking only to the PPP who before has a kid in a non-public placement, imaging that their are other kids in the system for who this would also be beneficial.  Now imagine the school district having to pay 40-50K for each of those kids tuition, because that's what happens.

People hear 3.4Billion and it seems like a huge number.  But divide that by 160K students and its only 21K per student.  That's less than tuition at many good private schools in the area, and MCPS has to account for things they don't like transportations, nurses, special education, non-private placement, and the maintenance of 212 buildings.

So the question is what would be a good amount per pupil to spend? 10k, 15k, 18k?  And what are you willing to give up to decrease the budget to that?[/quote]

Mcps has it in the budget.  These kids are not the issue.  Those schools are about $100k plus transportation.  Imagine having such special needs that you have to go to one.  It means mcps failed then.  [/quote]

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