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Not the PP but that main issue I see with the school and development is years of overcrowding. Like 30-50% overcrowded and the county doing nothing.  Stop building more condos if you don't have schools to put the kids in.  Stop saying kids don't live in condos ([b]yes, the board says this![/b]) And don't get me started about this disaster of the 2.0 curriculum. They also raised teacher student rations and took away paraeducators.  That is my main issues with why MCPS sucks.

That said, I do think the huge influx of poor illegal immigrants that do not speak English has been a burden onto the schools and resources, in certain areas like Rockville, Derwood, Silver Spring, and Gaithersburg.  There is a really bad gang presence here in Gaithersburg now.  I wish they would start putting asylum seeking teens in the W schools or up in Poolesville/Damascus.     [/quote]

When has anybody on the Board of Education said that kids don't live in condos? Could you please provide one specific instance?[/quote]

Every single time they have to estimate a new build-up for school allocations.  They get around it by saying apartments and condos are about 0.2 kids per unit.  What they do know and avoid admitting is many immigrant families share housing, even smaller homes, condos, or apartments.  Hispanics tend to do it because they are poor and Asians tend to do it because they grew up with extended family that lives with them.  All of these new areas have to have 10-15% HUD housing too.  Also, many lower middle class need to rent and not buy single family homes.  Some just don't want the work of a house and prefer townhouses, apartments, or condos.  So no, 0.2 kids a unit is a blatant lie.  But.... it gets them the future allocations to place the new buildings in a school.  [/quote]

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