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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it’s time to start charging mcps students a token fee at the beginning of the school year like lots of other school districts do?

How about $10-20 per kid collected at the beginning of the year that would go into a pool for classroom teachers for supplies, etc.?

Even a FARMs family should have skin in the game. $10-20 per family won’t break them. [/quote]

MCPS has plenty of money but choose to spend it otherwise.  $10-20 in a FARMS family could break them and mean buying food or not.  Do you even get the income level to qualify as FARMS?   What you live off in a month may be wha they live off in a year.[/quote]

I’m actually a poverty lawyer with extensive experience in the field both locally and nationally. I think it’s kind of you to be concerned, but the reality is that the majority of families who qualify for FARMs in MoCo are actually earning money in cash-based industries. In short: they aren’t as low-income as you think because they primarily earn money under the table. That’s why some of these families are equipped to go to Disney or fly home to their country for extended periods of time.

Guess what? Most states with far worse poverty than we have charge fees.

Skin in the game matters. [/quote]

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