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One PP here. I want them to be a STRONGER VOICE for change on this issue. I have only ever heard Sandy Evans, my board member, meekly and weakly speak about what is causing overcrowding issues in our schools. I know that at the end of the day they are just politicians, but even being just a BIT less politically correct would go a long way. Our student population keeps growing with little housing being added - this is a HUGE EFFING PROBLEM.

And it is not the BOS that sets student ratio yield formulas; it is FCPS.

And schools have tremendous power to track overcrowding. Three families using one address for school registration? Send it over to code enforcement to investigate. This would be a very simple cross-reference of their address database and measures like this would not require much manpower.

See Maryland tagged cars dropping off children? I see this a lot. I assume that they are car tax-dodging or undocumented immigrants taking advantage of Maryland's lax laws. They have no business having their children attending our schools. They should be going to school in Maryland, where they are paying their taxes. Set up police to ticket them. Fine them and get them OUT! Car taxes fund schools and other municipal programs. [/quote]

This will really help to EDUCATE the kids!  Not.

[b]"Our student population keeps growing with little housing being added - this is a HUG EFFING PROBLEM."- Why?  Besides poor housing conditions, why is this a problem for the schools?  Of course if housing is added, there is more of a base to tax, but if no housing is added then values go up and taxes go up.  More people into an apartment = more income generation for that apartment = that property should go up in value = it should generate more tax revenue.
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[b]Do you really want schools to turn into an arm of the police state?  Maybe you do, but most people do not want that.
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You are welcomed to rat out your neighbors with MD tags - VDOT's site has links to allow you to do so.  Maybe you can take a couple more steps and rat out neighbors who have made improvements to their homes.  Let the county know so the property values can reflect all that money they've used to make their homes nicer.

You seem to be hung up on this yield issue.  Yield is used by FCPS to estimate the student load from new developments in each school boundary in order to plan facilities improvements (eg. trailers or expansions) or redistricting.  Maybe FCPS is bad at this and needs to do a better job.  But yield formulas have nothing to do with increasing housing stock, or increasing tax base, or anything of the sort.    [/quote]

Yes, of course I want the school system can work more effectively with law enforcement, the BOS, whoever. They are allotted multi billions per year, and claim ignorance to absolutely everything.

And no, older, crowded garden apartments filled with poor families bring down the cache and property values of an area, not up, but nice try. And no, more people filling up an apartment complex does not bring more revenue into an apartment complex. Each unit costs X amount of dollars to rent, whether it is to a young couple with no children, or a family with 3 children. [/quote]

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