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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree and had the same fears, particularly on a day like today.  Must be nice for the W schools that don't have portables.  Damn you, Governor Hogan, for cutting school funding and making our kids stay in these damn portables.[/quote]

He didn't cut school funding.  In fact, he increased it.  He just didn't increase it enough for the county to continue to waste money fast enough.  So instead of cutting the huge overhead, wasted free programs, and county administrative, the board decided to increase ratios last year and spend time and money telling all the clueless people how awful it is that we don't get the money we asked for.  And people like you just believe it.   :mrgreen:  They have been telling overcrowded schools/districts for YEARS (prior to Hogan) that they need more money to build more schools.

Instead of blindly blaming the governor, do your research.  MCPS has more and more people in poverty.  That equals to higher funding needs for the schools with less tax revenue from the people.   They are also over building and there are no new schools for all the new housing.  How is this the governor's fault?  Time to start placing blame on the county government and the county board.  Stomping your feet and demanding more money doesn't always get you want you want.  [/quote]

If MCPS has higher funding needs,[b] wouldn't it have made sense for the governor to have provided the increased funding that everybody was basing their budget assumptions on[/b]?

I also don't quite understand the argument about capital funding. Hogan didn't provide the capital funding that MCPS expected, but this is ok (I guess?) because MCPS's capital needs have exceeded MCPS's capital funding for years?[/quote]

So because the county had an astronomical number wanted this year and assumed they could get it, the governor should just give it to them?  Are you the same people that thinks that we should always get a snow waiver each year from the state because it is assumed?  Instead of fixing the problems (budget, sticking with contingency plan) you just assume someone above them should help them?  [/quote]

MoCo has had budget cuts every year for the past seven years.  Oddly, when I walk the halls of my daughter's school, the children are not and have never been sitting on piles of money.  Our old building is decrepit, our playgrounds are falling apart, our staff are underpaid.  Our schools are vastly underfunded.  Imagine a world where we valued teachers, made it harder to become a teacher and more lucrative to be a teacher, instead of paying them pennies.  Imagine classrooms where there are lots of kids with challenges able to have extra help full time in the classroom.  Imagine kids with more access to better resources, better food, better everything, and you see a better future for all of us and all of our kids.

Or, be a republican like Hogan and cut the crap out of the budget because kids, man, who cares.  [/quote]

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