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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question; why?

The answer… illegal immigration.[/quote]

There aren't many illegal immigrants on the Western side of MoCo, but some of the class sizes are huge.  The population has grown rapidly, but the school district hasn't kept up with the rezoning.  The county doesn't help by allowing more multi-family housing to be built in already over crowded school clusters. [/quote]

It's this.  We are higher population density b/c we build apartments and houses on smaller tracts of land.  There's hardly any green space left.  Look how Strathmore sold off it's lawn and NIH sold what is now the "Mews."  People want to live closer to where they work.

But the number of actual school buildings rarely change and neither the number of teachers per classroom.  They put up trailers in the playgrounds and keep packing kids in the classrooms.  It's not the teachers or administrators' fault--county elected leaders need to change how they spend money.

Open more schools; hire more teachers.  The population trajectory has been on this way for a while.  It's not as though it happened overnight.  (And, no, it's not due to illegal immigration.)[/quote]

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