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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet, if you find somewhere, the county and MCPS funds will not follow you.    We are in a great cluster, but due to the years long overcrowding, many choose private for their kids.    No money follows.   Not surprising the biggest teachers unions are against school choice, charters, and vouchers.  [/quote]

The teacher's unions are against charters and vouchers because it is an unfair system.  When you have a charter school in the system, they get to cap their enrollment.  The traditional public school does not.  They get to finally say, nope we can help or serve this student, a traditional public school does not.  A voucher can go to a kid that is already is private, thus taking dollars away from the traditional public school system.

Let's say 100 kids decided to go to a charter school. The funding for those 100 kids goes to the charter school.  Great for them.  Unfortunately for the traditional public school, their cost remain almost exactly the same, but now they've lost the funding for 100 students.[/quote]

MCPS shouldn't have a problem with that.  They lost a few hundred kids when the MVA shut down.  Maybe the Charter will be a good thing to bring competition and make MCPS deal with its issues and improve (wishful thinking).  I'd send my kids if it weren't so far.  If you aren't happy you can always go back to MCPS.

Vouchers are silly in this area.  There are few affordable privates and most that are good are full, so you are just subsidizing the rich who'd go anyway. [/quote]

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