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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]23:15, that's exactly how I have felt from the outside for the last decade. It seems like they wanted to focus on the kids with more "need" with the limited resources, but now I think they have found there's a big consequence to that. Don't they get more federal money per enrolled child? So they get something with every extra child. The local school also gets more from the county for each child, as well as extra staff if the head count goes up enough.

They have tried to take away specialty programs entirely more than once, maybe as elitist? But what else is keeping the motivated families within the system?[/quote]

I think they've also tried redistricting.  I guess the thinking is that they need to break up the high-performing schools.  And then they get surprised when the parents of the high-performing kids then pull their kids out and send them to private.

My impression is that high-performing schools and programs get punished.  Instead of trying to replicate and add more of those programs, they break them up.

They need to stop messing with the few programs/schools that work.  And instead try to establish more of them.
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It seems INSANE to me that TAG students have to go through a lottery.  No, if you score high enough for TAG, you shouldn't have to go through a lottery on top of that.  It's ridiculous.  Those students who are TAG identified but don't win the lottery end up being put in private school[/b].  This has to be evident to the school board and administrators (unless they're incompetent, which could be the case given so few of them even have a strong educational background).

It kind infuriates me in the article where the county official acts like it's a mystery why middle class families with high performing students are pulling their kids from private school.  Their TAG process alone answers that question.

[b]But what the county doesn't realize is that it isn't just parents putting their kids in private school; it's parents MOVING entirely out of the county.  So the tax base will shrink if they continue.  Sadly, many people really don't want to move.  But they read article after article about the great schools in bordering counties and then they confro[/b]nt roadblocks to trying to work with the PG public school system, and they end up leaving.

I really don't want this to continue to happen.  I want the schools to turn around.  
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Great post, agreed on all points.[/quote]

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