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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I moved my kid to Montgomery County to learn Montgomery Country virtual arithmetic and history.

I'm not paying taxes for my kid to learn Allegheny County virtual arithmetic and history. [/quote]

Great then send your kid to an MCPS in person school. The MVA is gone. [/quote]

Many MVA students did not return resulting in a huge loss of revenue.  [/quote]

Huge? There were only a few hundred kids in virtual academy. [/quote]

No, there were not a few hundred.  You love making things up.  And a few hundred - MCPS gets what $19.800K per child, so lets say around kids left, that would be around $6 million right there.

Numbers declined as they were not allowing students off the waitlist.  Pay attention to what happened vs. your own narative.[/quote]

You badly misunderstand per pupil funding, or rather you are confusing per pupil [i]spending[/i] with per pupil [i]funding[/i]. MCPS spends maybe 19000 per kid, but most of that is fixed budget lines such as facilities, transportation, administration, and teachers. Those costs are fully fixed - MCPS receives them regardless of whether 300 kids do or do not attend that year.

Then a MUCH SMALLER allocation is allocated per student, and that's the amount MCPS may have lost when some MVA kids left the system.

However, the cost of MVA ($5m) is significantly higher than the amount lost because some smallish number of kids left, because again, the amount MCPS receives is only slightly related to count day. [/quote]

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