Why is MCPS open this week and Fairfax is closed?

[Anonymous]

MoCo is very Jewish, that's why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet the scores are higher in Fairfax. Go figure.

Eh, not really. Fairfax has a slightly higher SAT score average but they also have a smaller number of AA and Hispanic kids, so the difference is probably there. Honestly, even though people bitch and complain, I just don't see that much difference in the outcomes of similar kids in the different area school systems.

Fairfax:

African American: 1450
Asian American: 1742
Hispanic: 1491
White: 1721

MC:

African American: 1403
Asian American: 1786
Hispanic: 1461
White : 1766


There seems to be more of an achievement gap in MC vs. Fairfax, but having grown up in Fairfax (and living in MoCo now) I think that MoCo is more heterogeneous WRT income than Fairfax is. Fewer really poor areas in Fairfax.

Fairfax has more Asian, White and Hispanic students than MCPS. MCPS has more black students. Fairfax has more middle and upper-middle income areas. In MCPS, it's rich or poor with less in the middle.

[Anonymous]

Even if we had off the two days this week, people will start traveling early to avoid the rush, so we run into the same issue. The calendar is published a year in advance- it is your choice as parents if you are taking your child out to travel. Teachers understand, it is easier and cheaper to travel early. However some instruction does continue. I taught my math and reading lessons. They may have had a winter theme, but still hit the objectives we were studying.

[Anonymous]

London parent complaining about 2 full weeks off to cover

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MoCo is very Jewish, that's why.

Well they should have given them the 2 days off since it was Hanukkah.