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Montgomery County Public Schools, like many of the public schools in the Washington, D.C., metro area, have now been closed to in-person instruction for more than 300 days. The Jan. 12 Board of Education vote to keep county school
buildings closed for public education continues the leadership failure that could very well send the district and county into a death spiral. The notion that students lost to private or home school will reenter the public system is foolish and shows how out-of-touch administrators have become: Parents want to limit the disruption to their children’s lives and offer consistency; they will not yank them away from new friends or teachers with whom they have developed a relationship. On a county level, tolerance for high tax rates is tied to quality education. Maintaining the former without the latter will lead to not only declining enrollment but also an exodus: Think