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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you living under a rock? MCPS has terrible budget problems. Class sizes exploded in elementary schools several years ago. Overcrowding is a serious problem. They just announced delaying many projects that would relieve this. No one wants to talk about boundary changes but there is no other way to address some of these problems.

MCPS also underfunds gifted and special needs programs and services. They can only accommodate 3% of kids who test in the gifted range. Starr has a bad reputation for dealing with the gifted and talent community and a worse reputation with the special needs community. If the OP is hoping for entry into a HGC or magnet she needs to realize that its a lottery among those who qualify. You're better off in VA. [/quote]

OK, I'm living under a rock. So please find me the newspaper article or the press release or whatever where MCPS announces that they are facing a hundred-plus million dollar operating budget shortfall for next year, and are going to have to cut. Also, please explain what "class sizes exploded" means. They used to be 15, and now they're 35? They used to be 23, and now they're 25? (And yes, overcrowding is a serious problem, and there is not enough money in the capital budget to do everything that MCPS would like to do. But that has nothing to do with class size.)

And where you say the admission to the test-in magnets is "a lottery among those who qualify", what does that mean? Lots of people are qualified, according to some standard (which standard?), and the admissions committee picks randomly? How do you know this?
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