Anonymous wrote:Let me see; 22 pages on a subject that will not happen. DCUM is truly out of touch with the real world.

It's just our resident right wing trolls.

Let me see; 22 pages on a subject that will not happen. DCUM is truly out of touch with the real world.

The MCPS spending spree needs to end. More tax dollars being spent on all the wrong things.

Another reason to vote for school vouchers

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/school-board-gives-first-approval-to-mcps-2-96b-budget/

With less kids, MCPS wants more money to spend on frivolous pet projects vs. educating students. Pay teachers more. Hire more teachers. That is a sure fire way to improve education.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a parent that makes less than $75k per year with a special needs child in MCPS. My child spends most of the day in the general ed classroom but has not received the required special education services for the last two years.

Give me a voucher and let me see if I can find a better placement for my child to protect him from a school system that is just passing him through but not teaching him core skills. Let me see if I can find an environment that is kind and stops bullying from occurring. $16K would be better than the current situation.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere that'll take a special ed kid for 16K.

I’m a parent that makes less than $75k per year with a special needs child in MCPS. My child spends most of the day in the general ed classroom but has not received the required special education services for the last two years.

Give me a voucher and let me see if I can find a better placement for my child to protect him from a school system that is just passing him through but not teaching him core skills. Let me see if I can find an environment that is kind and stops bullying from occurring. $16K would be better than the current situation.

Look - kids are getting shot and raped in MCPS high schools. Teaching standards slid downhill with curriculum 2.0 and MCPS ignored the complaints during the rollout. The teaching standards fell off a cliff during the online school experiment that lasted for six school quarters. No due dates. No semester exams (yes I know they have been gone for years but they would really be helpful now to see if students are retaining the curriculum). No attendance requirements (at least at my child’s high school). No help in filling in the gaps from curriculum that was cut short during online learning with less instruction.

Parents are fed up. Education is not a Democrat issue or a Republican issue. Parents (both Democrats and Republicans) want school choice because MCPS is off its rails and doesn’t even pretend to care about educating students anymore. The whole corrupt institution is only being operated of what promotions individuals in Carver Center can receive, what perks like extra pay and vacation time can be passed around, what contracts can I award past MCPS employees, and what can the leadership carve out for themselves versus educating students.

Enough is enough. Education will be the top priority of the next election. I will vote for school vouchers if it comes up. I won’t care about the political party of the candidate either.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup and divert all the public schools funding to private schools

You must want to cripple a already failing MCPS

Versus what? Should we continue to throw more taxpayer money at this failing system? No thanks. Families deserve an alternative.

What is so humorous about this is that these many private schools, particularly for sns students, don't exist. There are only a few really good private schools for neurotypical students and even with vouchers, they will be out of reach for most. The privates that support sns students are often much worse than public school. They have a much harder time getting good teachers.

Yet. Create a market via 16,000 per student in Moco and see what schools rise up!

Yeah, a lot of $40K+ schools, with 16K discounts for vouchers. Taxes helping the rich again.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup and divert all the public schools funding to private schools

You must want to cripple a already failing MCPS

Versus what? Should we continue to throw more taxpayer money at this failing system? No thanks. Families deserve an alternative.

What is so humorous about this is that these many private schools, particularly for sns students, don't exist. There are only a few really good private schools for neurotypical students and even with vouchers, they will be out of reach for most. The privates that support sns students are often much worse than public school. They have a much harder time getting good teachers.

Yet. Create a market via 16,000 per student in Moco and see what schools rise up!

If there were more affordable prices many might go regardless of the vouchers. If there was a $20K school, we would but they are only religious schools and while I looked, since it wasn't our religion we felt very out of place even at the most welcoming ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup and divert all the public schools funding to private schools

You must want to cripple a already failing MCPS

Versus what? Should we continue to throw more taxpayer money at this failing system? No thanks. Families deserve an alternative.

What is so humorous about this is that these many private schools, particularly for sns students, don't exist. There are only a few really good private schools for neurotypical students and even with vouchers, they will be out of reach for most. The privates that support sns students are often much worse than public school. They have a much harder time getting good teachers.

Except religious schools, these schools are $50K+ so what will happen is the schools will just raise their prices to match the voucher.

Nope.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup and divert all the public schools funding to private schools

You must want to cripple a already failing MCPS

Versus what? Should we continue to throw more taxpayer money at this failing system? No thanks. Families deserve an alternative.

What is so humorous about this is that these many private schools, particularly for sns students, don't exist. There are only a few really good private schools for neurotypical students and even with vouchers, they will be out of reach for most. The privates that support sns students are often much worse than public school. They have a much harder time getting good teachers.

Yet. Create a market via 16,000 per student in Moco and see what schools rise up!

Anonymous wrote:Well, I just got my kid’s test scores in the mail today. And the report tells me that for both Math and Language Arts, more than 75% of Maryland students have NOT met expected standards. They are ‘approaching expectations’. They can dress is up however they want by saying ‘approaching’ but we all know that means the kids are not meeting standards.

Clearly our public education system is in shambles.

And yet the dems only answer is throw more money at the problem via the Kirwan Commission (blueprint for Maryland). Although the last hike in payments to unions in 2003 (Thornton) clearly didn’t work / we’re going to double down on the same failed plan. Definition of insanity (or more likely corruption).

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Anonymous wrote:Yup and divert all the public schools funding to private schools

You must want to cripple a already failing MCPS

Versus what? Should we continue to throw more taxpayer money at this failing system? No thanks. Families deserve an alternative.

What is so humorous about this is that these many private schools, particularly for sns students, don't exist. There are only a few really good private schools for neurotypical students and even with vouchers, they will be out of reach for most. The privates that support sns students are often much worse than public school. They have a much harder time getting good teachers.

Anonymous wrote:Yup and divert all the public schools funding to private schools

You must want to cripple a already failing MCPS

They do. It's a part of the right's agenda. In their minds, public schools foment liberalism. They will do anything to hurt public schools to encourage parents in to religious schools. The insanity in Loudoun is in great measure due to the effort to support a new school that is part of a very extreme church.