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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]All craziness aside, there are beautiful homes with wealthy or UMC families living in them throughout the DCC. Those families often send their kids to private schools. I’d hope the consultant will review that and gain an understanding of why the won’t send their kids to the public schools in their communities. Why can’t MCPS attract them back to their neighborhood schools? What changes/improvements could they make to get those families —and there are a lot of them — to go public?

That said, I think there will still need to be some boundary adjustments - but why would wealthy/UMC need to be bussed in to achieve equity when many in that income category already live there?[/quote]

This already exists. Why do you think TPMS has 25 seats set aside for easier admission? Its to try to keep some of the families from fleeing to private schools. Why do you think MCPS has been opening all the special magnets in the DCC? The seats are not being filled by low income kids. Its all there to try to get the wealthier kids back into the schools. It works for the limited number of seats but doesn't do anything beyond this.

UMC is a relative term too. The UMC families in the DCC are really not that wealthy. Private school is a stretch for many of them yet as long as they can afford it they will go. What could drive more UMC families back into the DCC schools though will be their inability to afford privates. Younger families are carrying more student debt and inflation to wage growth has reduced people's accessible income. When MoCo taxes go up again, this will take out another chunk of their ability to pay for private. If MCPS messes with other boundaries, you'll see more people apply to private schools which will edge up the tuition. [/quote]

This is the most ignorant and patronizing gibberish I've read in years.[/quote]

We moved to the DCC from Potomac specifically because it was clear the educational outcomes for high-achieving children were vastly better than elsewhere. [/quote]

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