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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Why so many folks on here against the area? Not asking to be argumentative, looking for some solid info from people in the area. [/quote]

PG is majority African American and parts of it are relatively poor.  Property values are generally lower than in other area jurisdictions which impacts tax revenue and school funding.  As you would expect, poorer localities suffer from higher crime rates.  A lot of the negativity here, IMO, is knee jerk reaction to Fox (and other) news reports of incidents of crime "in PG County" and the broad paint brush is applied to the County as a whole.  There are very nice parts of it too, certainly.  Spending time there and making up your own mind is really the way to go if you're thinking of moving there.

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So it is a vicious circle. The poor cannot afford houses with high property values, therefore revenue from property taxes is too low to maintain schools, and so even in Maryland we have a large segment of population who receive a very poor education. Gingrich thought he could solve the problem of ghetto education by making kindergarteners do manual labor in school. Most Americans are OK with this and I am amazed that nobody is even angered by this inequality[/quote]

+1.  Of course it is a vicious circle...and I have been pretty ticked about the lack of equality for a while.  Hence why I worked in education policy for many years.  It's embarrassing that even within Fairfax and Montgomery, there are schools that suffer from inequality just because of the area immediately surrounding it.  Yes, they have the same curriculum, but we've segregated schools again based on socio-economics.  And it's a damn shame.

Sorry, tangent, but it gets under my skin.[/quote]
So if blacks receive a sub standard education on socie-economic grounds then they are not being discriminated against, and nobody can say that the educational institution in America is racist?

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I didn't say that.  Of course there is a part of that.  We've gone backwards, though.  We claim to be equal, when CLEARLY we are not.  Race/Ethnicity is strongly tied with socioeconomics - it just is.

And as another poster said, go out to WV or rural parts of the country - it does boil down to socioeconomics in that case, as well.

And I live in FCPS - yes, I know what people pay in taxes.  I'm well acquainted with how this system works.  Doesn't mean we don't still have schools with highly concentrated poverty.  Ever heard of Dogwood in Reston?  Yes, they get resources from the county.  But by concentrating poverty in one school, you put that school in a tough spot deaing with issues the middle class and above schools just don't have.  This is a case where turning a school into a magnet or something of that nature would be a good thing rather than keeping EVERY school a "neighborhood school."  There are schools in MoCo like this, too - I know because a family member lives in one of those school zones and won't send their child to the neighborhood school and instead pays for private.[/quote]

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