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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread reaffirms our choice to not attend a W school..[/quote]

I’m not White and not at a W school and I’d be all for breaking up the county school system.

You can claim racism about anything and everything, but THIS is not about racism.

I grew up in NJ and we had school systems by County.  So much better and easier to make changes.  MCPS is TOO big to run efficiently.

In a smaller town-based school system, parents often get to know people on the school board and it helps with accountability.  MCPS has obvious issues with accountability.  Lax school security and lax hiring processes our kids at risk when they hire pedophiles.  And nobody gets held accountable.

Right now, MCPS doesn’t meet the kids of any of it’s students very well.  Break it up and each town/cluster can focus on its own needs. [/quote]

In the NJ town I lived in 15-20k in property taxes per year were common. People who grew up in the town often cannot afford to live there as adults because of taxes. Taxes get raised every year. Every. Year.

The school system hires teachers as favors rather than the best candidate. Our last year in NJ, two teachers were let go mid year after an audit by the state found they had not finished getting their teaching certificates. One of the fired teachers was the sil of the mayor.

At the elementary school level, the PTA moms decided class placement because certain families can't be around other families. There was one GT class per grade starting in 4th grade, the PTA moms' kids are always in these classes. You need teacher permission to take AP classes. There wasn't full day kindergarten because it was too expensive.

I'll stick with a county based school system.

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