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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get the frustration with McPS.  But I also feel like a lot of these comments about the county having different needs are just veiled class resentments.  Basically — east county is poor and has lots of immigrants so their needs are different (greater) than west county.  In states that have those small school districts there is a lot of disparity between school districts and more de facto segregation in schools.   I mean, look at Newton versus  Boston.  I think a lot of the “McPS is too big” sentiment is really just “we should ditch the low income areas of MoCo” sentiment.  [/quote]

The Newton vs. Boston comparison highlights how crazy our current setup is. Newton is the equivalent of Bethesda. But it is not governed by the city of Boston or by the county (Middlesex, population around 1.7m.) Middlesex County MA has 68 public HS but they are all managed by localities. Newton has 2 public HS and they're both excellent; so are most of the surrounding school systems, even in less wealthy areas. MCPS is trying to manage education for more than 1m residents. Ultimately it does a lousy job because it's just too many people and too widely dispersed geographically. BREAK IT UP![/quote]

There aren’t one million students. [/quote]

No one said that there are 1m students in MCPS. The point is that trying to manage a school system for 1.1m residents spread over 500 square miles is not efficient or effective. MA recognizes that which is why schools there are run by town/cities rather than counties.

I'm a raging liberal and it's the first time ever I'll cite AEI, but here goes: https://www.aei.org/op-eds/not-local-enough-the-montgomery-county-public-schools-case/[/quote]

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