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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While there are times I wish Silver Spring was incorporated and more in control of its destiny like a normal city, I think splitting the school district is a bad idea. Think of moco as a city of a million. A small los Angeles. It's economic diversity is a superpower, even if most of y'all think poor people have cooties. [/quote]

But the difference between a lot of small cities and MoCo is that there are charter options and lottery options for various schools. MoCo has...limited options and will have increasingly limited high quality options post-Regional model.

A small city would also have better public transportation options so the logistics of transportation to various options is easier.

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I'm all for moco having those things. Although charter schools are complicated. We used them, I'm.not opposed... But I think they create just as much opportunity for grift and waste and poor outcomes. Sometimes more. Just look at the endless churn of new charters in DC.

I would support smaller, interest-based schools. I think massive high schools and middle schools are hard to manage. In that sense, these academy ideas moco has aren't bad. But they need classes that meet every student where they're at, and the flexibility to do more. Long before it had charter schools, Philadelphia had magnet schools and art schools and experiential learning schools. Most of them are still around and still successful.

We are out of the game, but I'm sad that the part of our experience with MCPS that was positive--the DCC--is going away, and being replaced with something this poorly organized and stratified. [/quote]

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