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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, [b]30+ students in elementary schools doesn't serve anyone's kids well, not even the privileged kids. [/b]They just organized to call it out. Not everything that happens in McLean is about "fearing the poors" . But if you are paying a large amount of money in taxes, why should your kids get shafted? Fairfax owes all kids a good education.

(And no, I don't live in McLean)[/quote]

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We all pay the same tax rate. [/quote]

But in general, the houses are assessed higher. So they are stumping up larger sums.

But this shouldn't be an "us vs. them" thing - public education should serve all the students. These kids are being given a lesser education on the public dime.

A cautionary tale from my own upbringing. I lived in a mixed income district growing up. The district decided to do a lot of social engineering and bus the rich kids to the poor kids area and bus the poor kids to the rich area among other things. So kids were spending all day on buses and not going to their neighborhood schools . The rich area schools even had excess capacity that local kids couldn't attend. Very quickly the people with means either pulled their kids to private or moved to other districts and those who stayed voted down every school budget that came up. The schools went into the toilet and really ill-served those too poor to get out. You can want to serve those without means, but you also have to watch your base and owe who pay for it all. If they feel unduly screwed, the whole enterprise is in jeopardy. [/quote]

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