What makes MoCO so great?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Inner city DC schools have a better percentage than MCPS.

Citation please.

[Anonymous]

It is not great. NYC schools are much better. Long Island schools are much better.
I don't know if they are underfunded or just wasteful, but our highly rated MOCO school is barely adequate. I would happily pay higher taxes if the quality improved but it seems like a system captured by this Pearson publishing company.

I see private in our future and it makes me sad. I went to public and always wanted that for my child. MOCO is not great many places in the area are better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not great. NYC schools are much better. Long Island schools are much better.
I don't know if they are underfunded or just wasteful, but our highly rated MOCO school is barely adequate. I would happily pay higher taxes if the quality improved but it seems like a system captured by this Pearson publishing company.

I see private in our future and it makes me sad. I went to public and always wanted that for my child. MOCO is not great many places in the area are better.

How do you know that they are better? What are your criteria?

(NYC schools are better? All NYC schools? Not just the test-in ones and that elementary school in Park Slope that Trixie goes to for pre-K?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not great. NYC schools are much better. Long Island schools are much better.
I don't know if they are underfunded or just wasteful, but our highly rated MOCO school is barely adequate. I would happily pay higher taxes if the quality improved but it seems like a system captured by this Pearson publishing company.

I see private in our future and it makes me sad. I went to public and always wanted that for my child. MOCO is not great many places in the area are better.

$750 million goes towards educating illegal aliens and $100 million towards ESOL annually just in MoCo. That is a lot of dough that gets taken from the schools. MoCo was ranked #2 place for illegals to immigrate to in the US (after Central Valley, CA.) Teachers are struggling to communicate, let alone teach. They take up a lot of teacher time which gives your little Johnny less time. Projected enrollments are so much higher due to immigration they census can not calculate and schools are overcrowded. Ratios are high and now money needs to be spent for bigger schools. It is the undoing of this county. It is really sad that everyone thinks this law is not important. Countries have closed borders and enforce them for a reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$750 million goes towards educating illegal aliens and $100 million towards ESOL annually just in MoCo. That is a lot of dough that gets taken from the schools. MoCo was ranked #2 place for illegals to immigrate to in the US (after Central Valley, CA.) Teachers are struggling to communicate, let alone teach. They take up a lot of teacher time which gives your little Johnny less time. Projected enrollments are so much higher due to immigration they census can not calculate and schools are overcrowded. Ratios are high and now money needs to be spent for bigger schools. It is the undoing of this county. It is really sad that everyone thinks this law is not important. Countries have closed borders and enforce them for a reason.

Citations needed, please. Starting with the money spent in Montgomery County towards educating "illegal aliens". (Does MCPS even collect data on immigration status?) And who ranks jurisdictions based on how nice they are for "illegals" to immigrate to? US News and World Report? (Are these rankings more reliable than their college rankings?) Where did the US Census Bureau try (and fail, apparently) to calculate projected school enrollments? Thanks in advance for your information!