Is it time for private school vouchers in Montgomery County?

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because its modus vivendi is primarily a patronage jobs program - not teaching!

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Anonymous wrote:Look MCPS failed when they got in bed with a multinational corporation (Pearson) for Curriculum 2.0 and stayed with it per the contract for 10 years even though they knew in first year it was utterly dismal. Dear DCUM - do you believe selecting a curriculum and training teachers in selected curriculum is a core mission of a school system? If so then they failed miserably….just wait. Dr McKnight came from Discovery Channel as a consultant. She will be purchasing Discovery Channel Shark video curriculum next because your smart Moco people aren’t minding the store.

So much lies in just one post

Don’t you get tired posting the same drivel?

Curriculum 2.0 was a terrible experiment of a school system who thought they could write their own curriculum and use their once stellar reputation to sell it. It didn’t work and a generation of students have the educational gaps 2.0 created.

Where is this entire generation of MCPS with large educational gaps that are failing them in life? Last I check MCPS students were still being accepted to college, vocational training, and moving out into the world. Curriculum 2.0 may not have been wonderful, but stop acting like it sent kids out in the workd not able to do basic mathematics or basic reading.

Ask some business owners in Montgomery County. We consistenly see potential hires that have graduated from high school and can't do basic math and who lack basic writing skills.

Sure you do. Maybe they are private schools graduates

Different businessman -

We have been trying to hire for a well paid, entry level, front desk position. We received hundreds of cover letters and resumes with typos. The schools listed for most of these candidates are MCPS high schools.

That’s your metric for how well MCPS is doing, Typos? For a position that seems you’ve not filled yet. Not to mention MCPS has 50k+ students in grades 9-12, graduates however many tens of thousands each school year. But if a couple hundred who graduated who knows when have typos on their resume and cover letter, then certainly MCPS is not doing its job???

It’s an entry level position that requires communication skills. If the job application shows errors, then that reflects that the applicant is not a good candidate for the job. As another employer has pointed out, MCPS students are not prepared for the workforce.

It’s the type of applicant that your low skill position is attracting…not necessarily a reflection of MCPS. Employers want top notch candidates but offering just above minimum wage. If you want good candidates offer better compensation.

We’re talking about high school graduates. No college degree. No work experience.

It is reasonable to expect that a high school graduate has solid basic skills - ability to alphabetize, do percentages, write letters, basic math skills.

How is possible that some MCPS high school graduates simply don’t have these skills?

Sure, my kid will be fine. But we should expect that MCPS high school graduates do have basic skills to enter the work force at an entry level if they choose not to go on to college or trade school. That is currently not happening.

You have no proof of this. Just your whiny agenda.

What kind of boss is so damned whiny all the time? It's sad.

The proof is on the MCPs website! LOL

By MCPS’ own data, that they post, so many kids are not ‘proficient’.

What’s sad is that MCPS is letting so many kids down and getting away with it fantastically.

MCPS is feeling more and more like the district pre-Michelle Rhee: dysfunctional and focused on being a supplier of jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Look MCPS failed when they got in bed with a multinational corporation (Pearson) for Curriculum 2.0 and stayed with it per the contract for 10 years even though they knew in first year it was utterly dismal. Dear DCUM - do you believe selecting a curriculum and training teachers in selected curriculum is a core mission of a school system? If so then they failed miserably….just wait. Dr McKnight came from Discovery Channel as a consultant. She will be purchasing Discovery Channel Shark video curriculum next because your smart Moco people aren’t minding the store.

So much lies in just one post

Don’t you get tired posting the same drivel?

Curriculum 2.0 was a terrible experiment of a school system who thought they could write their own curriculum and use their once stellar reputation to sell it. It didn’t work and a generation of students have the educational gaps 2.0 created.

Where is this entire generation of MCPS with large educational gaps that are failing them in life? Last I check MCPS students were still being accepted to college, vocational training, and moving out into the world. Curriculum 2.0 may not have been wonderful, but stop acting like it sent kids out in the workd not able to do basic mathematics or basic reading.

Ask some business owners in Montgomery County. We consistenly see potential hires that have graduated from high school and can't do basic math and who lack basic writing skills.

Sure you do. Maybe they are private schools graduates

Different businessman -

We have been trying to hire for a well paid, entry level, front desk position. We received hundreds of cover letters and resumes with typos. The schools listed for most of these candidates are MCPS high schools.

That’s your metric for how well MCPS is doing, Typos? For a position that seems you’ve not filled yet. Not to mention MCPS has 50k+ students in grades 9-12, graduates however many tens of thousands each school year. But if a couple hundred who graduated who knows when have typos on their resume and cover letter, then certainly MCPS is not doing its job???

It’s an entry level position that requires communication skills. If the job application shows errors, then that reflects that the applicant is not a good candidate for the job. As another employer has pointed out, MCPS students are not prepared for the workforce.

It’s the type of applicant that your low skill position is attracting…not necessarily a reflection of MCPS. Employers want top notch candidates but offering just above minimum wage. If you want good candidates offer better compensation.

We’re talking about high school graduates. No college degree. No work experience.

It is reasonable to expect that a high school graduate has solid basic skills - ability to alphabetize, do percentages, write letters, basic math skills.

How is possible that some MCPS high school graduates simply don’t have these skills?

Sure, my kid will be fine. But we should expect that MCPS high school graduates do have basic skills to enter the work force at an entry level if they choose not to go on to college or trade school. That is currently not happening.

If your job posting is only attracting applicants that lack basic skills the posting is a problem. If you interview applicants the ones you choose don’t have basic skills you have a problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Look MCPS failed when they got in bed with a multinational corporation (Pearson) for Curriculum 2.0 and stayed with it per the contract for 10 years even though they knew in first year it was utterly dismal. Dear DCUM - do you believe selecting a curriculum and training teachers in selected curriculum is a core mission of a school system? If so then they failed miserably….just wait. Dr McKnight came from Discovery Channel as a consultant. She will be purchasing Discovery Channel Shark video curriculum next because your smart Moco people aren’t minding the store.

So much lies in just one post

Don’t you get tired posting the same drivel?

Curriculum 2.0 was a terrible experiment of a school system who thought they could write their own curriculum and use their once stellar reputation to sell it. It didn’t work and a generation of students have the educational gaps 2.0 created.

Where is this entire generation of MCPS with large educational gaps that are failing them in life? Last I check MCPS students were still being accepted to college, vocational training, and moving out into the world. Curriculum 2.0 may not have been wonderful, but stop acting like it sent kids out in the workd not able to do basic mathematics or basic reading.

Ask some business owners in Montgomery County. We consistenly see potential hires that have graduated from high school and can't do basic math and who lack basic writing skills.

Sure you do. Maybe they are private schools graduates

Different businessman -

We have been trying to hire for a well paid, entry level, front desk position. We received hundreds of cover letters and resumes with typos. The schools listed for most of these candidates are MCPS high schools.

That’s your metric for how well MCPS is doing, Typos? For a position that seems you’ve not filled yet. Not to mention MCPS has 50k+ students in grades 9-12, graduates however many tens of thousands each school year. But if a couple hundred who graduated who knows when have typos on their resume and cover letter, then certainly MCPS is not doing its job???

It’s an entry level position that requires communication skills. If the job application shows errors, then that reflects that the applicant is not a good candidate for the job. As another employer has pointed out, MCPS students are not prepared for the workforce.

It’s the type of applicant that your low skill position is attracting…not necessarily a reflection of MCPS. Employers want top notch candidates but offering just above minimum wage. If you want good candidates offer better compensation.

We’re talking about high school graduates. No college degree. No work experience.

It is reasonable to expect that a high school graduate has solid basic skills - ability to alphabetize, do percentages, write letters, basic math skills.

How is possible that some MCPS high school graduates simply don’t have these skills?

Sure, my kid will be fine. But we should expect that MCPS high school graduates do have basic skills to enter the work force at an entry level if they choose not to go on to college or trade school. That is currently not happening.

If your job posting is only attracting applicants that lack basic skills the posting is a problem. If you interview applicants the ones you choose don’t have basic skills you have a problem.

Quality education and a high skilled workforce is why Amazon is building in Northern Virginia vs. Montgomery County. There’s a long term impact to the county’s economy when the quality of public schools are allowed to tank.

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Anonymous wrote:Just ask any remedial teacher at MoCO community college - they will tell you how unprepared the Curriculum 2.0 generation truly is….

Curriculum 2.0 is gone but the new curriculum is not much better. MCPS needs to go back to basics. Start with textbooks, teaching spelling, vocubulaary, grammar and spend way more time on reading and math. Math needs to go back to basics as well starting with math facts. And, teaching handwriting and typing. Way back when we had all that.

Benchmark teaches vocabulary, grammar and spelling. Or at least that's my daughter's teacher is doing.

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Anonymous wrote:Look MCPS failed when they got in bed with a multinational corporation (Pearson) for Curriculum 2.0 and stayed with it per the contract for 10 years even though they knew in first year it was utterly dismal. Dear DCUM - do you believe selecting a curriculum and training teachers in selected curriculum is a core mission of a school system? If so then they failed miserably….just wait. Dr McKnight came from Discovery Channel as a consultant. She will be purchasing Discovery Channel Shark video curriculum next because your smart Moco people aren’t minding the store.

So much lies in just one post

Don’t you get tired posting the same drivel?

Curriculum 2.0 was a terrible experiment of a school system who thought they could write their own curriculum and use their once stellar reputation to sell it. It didn’t work and a generation of students have the educational gaps 2.0 created.

Where is this entire generation of MCPS with large educational gaps that are failing them in life? Last I check MCPS students were still being accepted to college, vocational training, and moving out into the world. Curriculum 2.0 may not have been wonderful, but stop acting like it sent kids out in the workd not able to do basic mathematics or basic reading.

Ask some business owners in Montgomery County. We consistenly see potential hires that have graduated from high school and can't do basic math and who lack basic writing skills.

Sure you do. Maybe they are private schools graduates

Different businessman -

We have been trying to hire for a well paid, entry level, front desk position. We received hundreds of cover letters and resumes with typos. The schools listed for most of these candidates are MCPS high schools.

That’s your metric for how well MCPS is doing, Typos? For a position that seems you’ve not filled yet. Not to mention MCPS has 50k+ students in grades 9-12, graduates however many tens of thousands each school year. But if a couple hundred who graduated who knows when have typos on their resume and cover letter, then certainly MCPS is not doing its job???

It’s an entry level position that requires communication skills. If the job application shows errors, then that reflects that the applicant is not a good candidate for the job. As another employer has pointed out, MCPS students are not prepared for the workforce.

It’s the type of applicant that your low skill position is attracting…not necessarily a reflection of MCPS. Employers want top notch candidates but offering just above minimum wage. If you want good candidates offer better compensation.

We’re talking about high school graduates. No college degree. No work experience.

It is reasonable to expect that a high school graduate has solid basic skills - ability to alphabetize, do percentages, write letters, basic math skills.

How is possible that some MCPS high school graduates simply don’t have these skills?

Sure, my kid will be fine. But we should expect that MCPS high school graduates do have basic skills to enter the work force at an entry level if they choose not to go on to college or trade school. That is currently not happening.

If your job posting is only attracting applicants that lack basic skills the posting is a problem. If you interview applicants the ones you choose don’t have basic skills you have a problem.

Quality education and a high skilled workforce is why Amazon is building in Northern Virginia vs. Montgomery County. There’s a long term impact to the county’s economy when the quality of public schools are allowed to tank.

Pretty sure it was the tax breaks not the public schools

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Anonymous wrote:Look MCPS failed when they got in bed with a multinational corporation (Pearson) for Curriculum 2.0 and stayed with it per the contract for 10 years even though they knew in first year it was utterly dismal. Dear DCUM - do you believe selecting a curriculum and training teachers in selected curriculum is a core mission of a school system? If so then they failed miserably….just wait. Dr McKnight came from Discovery Channel as a consultant. She will be purchasing Discovery Channel Shark video curriculum next because your smart Moco people aren’t minding the store.

So much lies in just one post

Don’t you get tired posting the same drivel?

Curriculum 2.0 was a terrible experiment of a school system who thought they could write their own curriculum and use their once stellar reputation to sell it. It didn’t work and a generation of students have the educational gaps 2.0 created.

Where is this entire generation of MCPS with large educational gaps that are failing them in life? Last I check MCPS students were still being accepted to college, vocational training, and moving out into the world. Curriculum 2.0 may not have been wonderful, but stop acting like it sent kids out in the workd not able to do basic mathematics or basic reading.

Ask some business owners in Montgomery County. We consistenly see potential hires that have graduated from high school and can't do basic math and who lack basic writing skills.

Sure you do. Maybe they are private schools graduates

Different businessman -

We have been trying to hire for a well paid, entry level, front desk position. We received hundreds of cover letters and resumes with typos. The schools listed for most of these candidates are MCPS high schools.

That’s your metric for how well MCPS is doing, Typos? For a position that seems you’ve not filled yet. Not to mention MCPS has 50k+ students in grades 9-12, graduates however many tens of thousands each school year. But if a couple hundred who graduated who knows when have typos on their resume and cover letter, then certainly MCPS is not doing its job???

It’s an entry level position that requires communication skills. If the job application shows errors, then that reflects that the applicant is not a good candidate for the job. As another employer has pointed out, MCPS students are not prepared for the workforce.

It’s the type of applicant that your low skill position is attracting…not necessarily a reflection of MCPS. Employers want top notch candidates but offering just above minimum wage. If you want good candidates offer better compensation.

We’re talking about high school graduates. No college degree. No work experience.

It is reasonable to expect that a high school graduate has solid basic skills - ability to alphabetize, do percentages, write letters, basic math skills.

How is possible that some MCPS high school graduates simply don’t have these skills?

Sure, my kid will be fine. But we should expect that MCPS high school graduates do have basic skills to enter the work force at an entry level if they choose not to go on to college or trade school. That is currently not happening.

If your job posting is only attracting applicants that lack basic skills the posting is a problem. If you interview applicants the ones you choose don’t have basic skills you have a problem.

Quality education and a high skilled workforce is why Amazon is building in Northern Virginia vs. Montgomery County. There’s a long term impact to the county’s economy when the quality of public schools are allowed to tank.

Pretty sure it was the tax breaks not the public schools

+1000. Anyone who thinks northern VA schools are heads above MoCo, I’ve got a bridge I want to sell you.

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Anonymous wrote:Look MCPS failed when they got in bed with a multinational corporation (Pearson) for Curriculum 2.0 and stayed with it per the contract for 10 years even though they knew in first year it was utterly dismal. Dear DCUM - do you believe selecting a curriculum and training teachers in selected curriculum is a core mission of a school system? If so then they failed miserably….just wait. Dr McKnight came from Discovery Channel as a consultant. She will be purchasing Discovery Channel Shark video curriculum next because your smart Moco people aren’t minding the store.

So much lies in just one post

Don’t you get tired posting the same drivel?

Curriculum 2.0 was a terrible experiment of a school system who thought they could write their own curriculum and use their once stellar reputation to sell it. It didn’t work and a generation of students have the educational gaps 2.0 created.

Where is this entire generation of MCPS with large educational gaps that are failing them in life? Last I check MCPS students were still being accepted to college, vocational training, and moving out into the world. Curriculum 2.0 may not have been wonderful, but stop acting like it sent kids out in the workd not able to do basic mathematics or basic reading.

Ask some business owners in Montgomery County. We consistenly see potential hires that have graduated from high school and can't do basic math and who lack basic writing skills.

Sure you do. Maybe they are private schools graduates

Different businessman -

We have been trying to hire for a well paid, entry level, front desk position. We received hundreds of cover letters and resumes with typos. The schools listed for most of these candidates are MCPS high schools.

That’s your metric for how well MCPS is doing, Typos? For a position that seems you’ve not filled yet. Not to mention MCPS has 50k+ students in grades 9-12, graduates however many tens of thousands each school year. But if a couple hundred who graduated who knows when have typos on their resume and cover letter, then certainly MCPS is not doing its job???

It’s an entry level position that requires communication skills. If the job application shows errors, then that reflects that the applicant is not a good candidate for the job. As another employer has pointed out, MCPS students are not prepared for the workforce.

It’s the type of applicant that your low skill position is attracting…not necessarily a reflection of MCPS. Employers want top notch candidates but offering just above minimum wage. If you want good candidates offer better compensation.

We’re talking about high school graduates. No college degree. No work experience.

It is reasonable to expect that a high school graduate has solid basic skills - ability to alphabetize, do percentages, write letters, basic math skills.

How is possible that some MCPS high school graduates simply don’t have these skills?

Sure, my kid will be fine. But we should expect that MCPS high school graduates do have basic skills to enter the work force at an entry level if they choose not to go on to college or trade school. That is currently not happening.

If your job posting is only attracting applicants that lack basic skills the posting is a problem. If you interview applicants the ones you choose don’t have basic skills you have a problem.

Quality education and a high skilled workforce is why Amazon is building in Northern Virginia vs. Montgomery County. There’s a long term impact to the county’s economy when the quality of public schools are allowed to tank.

+1. It is a virtuous cycle. Without a attracting new businesses who put pressure on public schools all you have are parents to put pressure - which MCPS teachers IGNORE. Hats off to N. VA. May they continue to clean MCPS’ clock until pols finally get it.

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NAEP scores. VA - 4th Nation. Maryland in the 30s.

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Anonymous wrote:NAEP scores. VA - 4th Nation. Maryland in the 30s.

And despite how the state does MoCo ranks at the very top.

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Anonymous wrote:NAEP scores. VA - 4th Nation. Maryland in the 30s.

And despite how the state does MoCo ranks at the very top.

Very top of a low ranking state educational system is not a good thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Look MCPS failed when they got in bed with a multinational corporation (Pearson) for Curriculum 2.0 and stayed with it per the contract for 10 years even though they knew in first year it was utterly dismal. Dear DCUM - do you believe selecting a curriculum and training teachers in selected curriculum is a core mission of a school system? If so then they failed miserably….just wait. Dr McKnight came from Discovery Channel as a consultant. She will be purchasing Discovery Channel Shark video curriculum next because your smart Moco people aren’t minding the store.

So much lies in just one post

Don’t you get tired posting the same drivel?

Curriculum 2.0 was a terrible experiment of a school system who thought they could write their own curriculum and use their once stellar reputation to sell it. It didn’t work and a generation of students have the educational gaps 2.0 created.

Where is this entire generation of MCPS with large educational gaps that are failing them in life? Last I check MCPS students were still being accepted to college, vocational training, and moving out into the world. Curriculum 2.0 may not have been wonderful, but stop acting like it sent kids out in the workd not able to do basic mathematics or basic reading.

Ask some business owners in Montgomery County. We consistenly see potential hires that have graduated from high school and can't do basic math and who lack basic writing skills.

Sure you do. Maybe they are private schools graduates

Different businessman -

We have been trying to hire for a well paid, entry level, front desk position. We received hundreds of cover letters and resumes with typos. The schools listed for most of these candidates are MCPS high schools.

That’s your metric for how well MCPS is doing, Typos? For a position that seems you’ve not filled yet. Not to mention MCPS has 50k+ students in grades 9-12, graduates however many tens of thousands each school year. But if a couple hundred who graduated who knows when have typos on their resume and cover letter, then certainly MCPS is not doing its job???

It’s an entry level position that requires communication skills. If the job application shows errors, then that reflects that the applicant is not a good candidate for the job. As another employer has pointed out, MCPS students are not prepared for the workforce.

It’s the type of applicant that your low skill position is attracting…not necessarily a reflection of MCPS. Employers want top notch candidates but offering just above minimum wage. If you want good candidates offer better compensation.

We’re talking about high school graduates. No college degree. No work experience.

It is reasonable to expect that a high school graduate has solid basic skills - ability to alphabetize, do percentages, write letters, basic math skills.

How is possible that some MCPS high school graduates simply don’t have these skills?

Sure, my kid will be fine. But we should expect that MCPS high school graduates do have basic skills to enter the work force at an entry level if they choose not to go on to college or trade school. That is currently not happening.

If your job posting is only attracting applicants that lack basic skills the posting is a problem. If you interview applicants the ones you choose don’t have basic skills you have a problem.

Quality education and a high skilled workforce is why Amazon is building in Northern Virginia vs. Montgomery County. There’s a long term impact to the county’s economy when the quality of public schools are allowed to tank.

Unless FCPS is quietly graduating students with BS degrees, I don't think MCPS has anything to do with the attractiveness of the workforce to corporate employers

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Anonymous wrote:NAEP scores. VA - 4th Nation. Maryland in the 30s.

And despite how the state does MoCo ranks at the very top.

Very top of a low ranking state educational system is not a good thing.

MD is top ten:
https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/5335

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Anonymous wrote:Look MCPS failed when they got in bed with a multinational corporation (Pearson) for Curriculum 2.0 and stayed with it per the contract for 10 years even though they knew in first year it was utterly dismal. Dear DCUM - do you believe selecting a curriculum and training teachers in selected curriculum is a core mission of a school system? If so then they failed miserably….just wait. Dr McKnight came from Discovery Channel as a consultant. She will be purchasing Discovery Channel Shark video curriculum next because your smart Moco people aren’t minding the store.

So much lies in just one post

Don’t you get tired posting the same drivel?

Curriculum 2.0 was a terrible experiment of a school system who thought they could write their own curriculum and use their once stellar reputation to sell it. It didn’t work and a generation of students have the educational gaps 2.0 created.

Where is this entire generation of MCPS with large educational gaps that are failing them in life? Last I check MCPS students were still being accepted to college, vocational training, and moving out into the world. Curriculum 2.0 may not have been wonderful, but stop acting like it sent kids out in the workd not able to do basic mathematics or basic reading.

Ask some business owners in Montgomery County. We consistenly see potential hires that have graduated from high school and can't do basic math and who lack basic writing skills.

Sure you do. Maybe they are private schools graduates

Different businessman -

We have been trying to hire for a well paid, entry level, front desk position. We received hundreds of cover letters and resumes with typos. The schools listed for most of these candidates are MCPS high schools.

That’s your metric for how well MCPS is doing, Typos? For a position that seems you’ve not filled yet. Not to mention MCPS has 50k+ students in grades 9-12, graduates however many tens of thousands each school year. But if a couple hundred who graduated who knows when have typos on their resume and cover letter, then certainly MCPS is not doing its job???

It’s an entry level position that requires communication skills. If the job application shows errors, then that reflects that the applicant is not a good candidate for the job. As another employer has pointed out, MCPS students are not prepared for the workforce.

It’s the type of applicant that your low skill position is attracting…not necessarily a reflection of MCPS. Employers want top notch candidates but offering just above minimum wage. If you want good candidates offer better compensation.

We’re talking about high school graduates. No college degree. No work experience.

It is reasonable to expect that a high school graduate has solid basic skills - ability to alphabetize, do percentages, write letters, basic math skills.

How is possible that some MCPS high school graduates simply don’t have these skills?

Sure, my kid will be fine. But we should expect that MCPS high school graduates do have basic skills to enter the work force at an entry level if they choose not to go on to college or trade school. That is currently not happening.

If your job posting is only attracting applicants that lack basic skills the posting is a problem. If you interview applicants the ones you choose don’t have basic skills you have a problem.

Quality education and a high skilled workforce is why Amazon is building in Northern Virginia vs. Montgomery County. There’s a long term impact to the county’s economy when the quality of public schools are allowed to tank.

No, they build in VA because of the tax benefits and cheaper land/rent. It has nothing to do with education.

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Anonymous wrote:NAEP scores. VA - 4th Nation. Maryland in the 30s.

And despite how the state does MoCo ranks at the very top.

Very top of a low ranking state educational system is not a good thing.

MD is top ten:
https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/5335

One can only imagine how bad the lower ranking schools systems are.