We need to stop saying MCPS is one of the best school systems in the country

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Montgomery Ciunty Maryland has one of the highest concentrations of students from poor and uneducated families? LOL.

No other county in the Washington region, including the District of Columbia, experienced increases in poverty of the same magnitude during the late 2000s as MoCo.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2013/05/22-suburban-poverty-kneebone-berube

Data Point: In the three years between 2007 and 2010, Montgomery County shed more than 37,000 jobs, dropping below its 2000 jobs total by 2010.
At the same time that the county faced unprecedented economic challenges, it also experienced a rapid demographic transformation. The 2010 census revealed that, for the first time, non-Hispanic whites constituted less than half (49 percent) of the county’s residents, down from 73 percent two decades earlier. And while immigrants accounted for fewer than one in five residents in 1990, in 2010 they represented almost one-third of the population and almost 40 percent of poor residents.

Data Point: Between 2007 and 2010, the number of residents living below the federal poverty line grew by two-thirds, or more than 30,000 people, pushing the poverty rate up by nearly 3 percentage points.
Rapid increases in poverty, coupled with the shifting demographics, often left communities in suburban Montgomery County struggling to play catch-up without the resources to match the growing and changing needs of their residents.

We can only afford to buy a house under 500k, and one of our goals is to try to find a neighborhood where we can actually speak English as a first or second language with our neighbors. The LOL poster must not go across Rockville Pike to points east very much.

I agree, s/he needs to spend some time walking around there and Wheaton to witness "concentrations" in action and see firsthand what some teachers have to deal with.

Nice try, but I am from southeast DC and also spent a portion of my childhood in inner-city Philadelphia, and I now live in Silver Spring. The "poverty" you see in MoCo or FFX is absolutely nothing compared to the generational poverty, despair, violence, etc found in the inner city, and it's slightly offensive you think it is comparable.

Then why the heck is everyone on FARMS? For fake poverty?

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Anonymous wrote:You hear this all the time from PTA, MCPS, and realtor types but there is zero evidence to back this up. Perhaps it was true once but MCPS is not at the top anywhere anymore. Some people are in terrible denial.

Looking at the earlier thread someone actually thinks the survey must have been rigged where MCPS ES are nowhere in the top 10 for MD and Howard dominates the top position. For the MSA scores when MCPS ended up in the middle with 14 counties outscoring it, the people in denial claimed other counties must not be doing common core which isn't true. When kids all fail the Algebra 2.0 exams at even greater rate than before, it must be because of snow even though other counties and states in the area had the same snow but managed to score much higher.

There is no point in pretending to be something that you are not.

I have never said nor ever will say it is a good school district. We are stuck here because of my husband's job. And yes, it does suck - big time.

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There are certain programs/magnets and schools in MCPS that are excellent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are certain programs/magnets and schools in MCPS that are excellent.

If your DC can get in.

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Anonymous wrote:There are certain programs/magnets and schools in MCPS that are excellent.

+1 coming from a district that had a shadow of a gifted program.

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Anonymous wrote:There are certain programs/magnets and schools in MCPS that are excellent.

If your DC can get in.

Yes, grateful that my child has gotten in.