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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I think that you are going to have a hard time persuading the rest of the county about how it's so unfair that Whitman, Wootton, Churchill, and Walter Johnson don't have a test-in middle-school magnet program located in their clusters. [/quote]

Isn't this reverse social-economic discrimination? I don't know the data on who applies and qualifies for the magnets but assuming those schools have an equal or number of students then why wouldn't you place a magnet or IB program in those schools? Why waste the money busing them across the county? It certainly is counter to health policies to have them go even earlier because of an extra long bus ride.

Montgomery is very fucked up and has suffered from terrible leadership. There should be more integrated housing options but the county council is one of the most idiotic groups in the country when it comes to planning and development. They create so many barriers that Virginia and Howard have stepped in to grab all the growing industries. When a developer does get through the red tape and decides to build something here, Montgomery County ends up being completely shafted on funds for schools or community development because they aren't competent negotiators and don't enforce their own polices that frighten other developers away. . Its really the worst of both ends.

We've ended up with a declining tax revenue base while other areas around us are growing. We have segregation in housing that affects the schools. We try to address this by spending money busing kids around so we don't have enough money to start schools at a legitimate time. [/quote]

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