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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This original post from 2012 and now the exact same thing is happening again. Class sizes are going up again so MCPS staff get a 5% raise. Unbelievable!!

Its not just the teachers but the rest of the staff in MCPS hang off the success of the teachers union. Its disgusting that MCPS puts giving even more employee raises over the students. MCPS doesn't give a crap about education. MCPS exists to support itself. [/quote]

Don't blame MCPS.  Teachers deserve more because they have more on their plate. They also get less or inadequate support from the district/state/feds.

Education quality hasn't changed. The income levels of the family of incoming kids have. Children from low income families generally come with more challenges and are generally more expensive to educate since they require more resources. This is compounded when schools become more segregated, and you have large buckets of schools that are full of predominately low income kids and others where its the complete opposite. Contrary to underlying reasons for white flight to west MoCo and VA, the current model (income and racial segregated schools) is actually more expensive to support, and lowers the quality of public education for everyone.

Your issues are primarily related to poor taxation/county and state fiscal management, inadequacies in school boundaries, and lax attitudes on urban planning .  Blame your local elected officials and the county fiscal manager.

Disclaimer: I'm a retired education policy analyst.[/quote]

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