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[quote=Anonymous]I think one of the big problems is the size of MoCo.  It's just so big, and the varying needs of schools and students in different parts of the county result in policies that make everyone feel short-changed.  There is a complete absence of local control and parents in both the affluent and less affluent parts of the county feel powerless to implement changes that are appropriate for the challenges faced in their particular schools.  But how do you make the county smaller?  I just don't see a solution.  So I'm sitting here in downcounty pissed off about a spectacularly expensive purchase being made at one of the affluent schools, a scoreboard for $80,000, but the parents at those schools perceive children in the downcounty as already getting a disproportionate amount of funding per student while their classrooms are bursting at the seams, so they're unapologetic about doing what they can with the resources that are at their disposal (fair or not, parents of Churchill students are more likely to donate to boosters than parents in the downcounty schools, some of which have FARMS well above 50%).   And neither side is wrong to feel aggrieved.  Because they're not getting what they need.[/quote]

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