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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gotta get the poors their own district.[/quote]
It's  not about that.  It's about how local needs are different. Poolesville has different weather patterns than Silver Spring.  They probably need way more school closures than we do in the southern part of the county.

Most of the covid cases are also in the east side of the county. North county is green. They should be able to open at least hybrid, but they can't because we are one school district.[/quote]

you can dress the argument up any way you like but it's still going to be about kicking all the poor kids out of Montgomery county public schools and making their own district.

Besides I thought that we weren't going to have snow days anymore[/quote]
If we split it up district and lower district, the "poors" will still be part of the "richer" district that includes Potomac and Bethesda.

Weather related closures was just one reason. It's pretty clear now that MCPS has gotten too big to be efficient.  I am not advocating for Potomac and Bethesda so create its own district as some people want to do, but I do think the size of MCPS is just too big.  I think it should be split upper and lower, which would still mean both districts would have a mix of SES families.[/quote]

I'm really struggling to see how splitting into two districts would really help, particularly when the county would still be responsible for allocating money for schools and making related housing development decisions.

I'm highly skeptical of reasoning over weather closures.  Urban school districts in this region don't make particularly different decisions from their surrounding districts.  I really don't think a hypothetical downcounty MCPS district would make different decisions than upcounty.

We'd still have the same controversial issues over boundaries, minorities, and IEP students because the two districts would still be quite large, and there are many UMC parents who are politically well-connected in both the north and the south.

I guess this brings me back to an earlier post that I saw in this thread.  If you all would really like to spend your political energy pushing for a district split, go at it.  It's obviously not going to happen, so you'll probably do less damage to the public school system fighting for this rather than something that you actually might be able to influence.

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