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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The smart thing for the county to do is build school capacity to meet anticipated demand. [/b]When the county can’t grow because it hasn’t built enough schools, MCPS and the county council have failed.

This isn’t all on MCPS. The county council has repeatedly gutted school funding — especially in urban areas where high-density development is concentrated — by lowering impact fees that developers pay to add school capacity. The fees had been set so that each new development paid roughly the amount of money required to add the capacity needed for that development, but the council has cut the fees because it prioritizes developer profit over building schools. [/quote]

The county has never done this. Never ever. Not even in the boom growth years in the 1950s. Maybe MCPS should consider sending kids to school in shifts, like they did in the 1950s.[/quote]

So you’re saying the county has never been smart. Concur.

Instead of shifts, put all the kids from new developments in virtual until schools get built or send them to the nearest school with space. Then we can see how much infrastructure (which developers neither own nor contribute enough toward building) contributes to the price of a house. [/quote]

:shock: [/quote]

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