How did your MCPS-educated kid do in college?
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Anonymous
If you look through the Sidwell catalog, you’ll see they have most if not all of those as well. But keep trying. |
Anonymous
“Honors based on GPA” So they weren’t in the honors program. |
Anonymous
| Oh and Sidwell is in school while MCPS continues to "dig out" |
Anonymous
ok, I guess you pay for the ice shoveling there, too. Good on ya. |
Anonymous
| And now back to the OP. If you want to start the whole public vs private discussion once again as if we haven't seen enough on this forum, start your own damn f thread. |
Anonymous
Wrong. I just went through Sidwell catalog. The only subject they come close is CS. In math and science Sidwell's offerings is at best 1/4 of Blair's. Which is to be expected by the way. Not sure why you beat a dead horse 
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Anonymous
I mean, this is factually false. I also looked at both and saw far more than 1/4 of the offerings. But keep on going. |
Anonymous
| MCPS is making it really hard for public to obtain information how kids within the system are progressing from ES to MS to HS. Been calling and asking for that data and get crickets. The route for public information request is really obfuscated and long. Time to stop blinding saying MCPS is great. One parent said it earlier - it is mostly the parents, not the school system that makes the results. |
Anonymous
There are a bunch of lawyers who can get that data. But they shouldn't have to. It's a frickin PUBLIC school |
Anonymous
They only provide it for a select few. Our school doesn't have much stem or humanities... |
Anonymous
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My kids went to MCPS magnet programs. They had a wonderful and productive time in college. Both went to in-state public colleges. Both did double majors because of AP/IB credits. We discouraged them from finishing early. Since they had merit scholarship (tuition covered) for 4 years, we thought that they both should make full use of it and do full 4 years of college - with some easy classes and an easy pace. Both gainfully employed right out of college (tech).
Both got admitted to multiple colleges. In-state public colleges made it very attractive by giving free tuition, college credits, honors college etc. Both rejected the higher ranked OOS colleges (those were also public colleges but in another state) because the in-state option were quite good in chosen majors, and they wanted to save money. |
Anonymous
Most of our kids don't have access to any of those classes and it only takes a select few. |
Anonymous
Congrats! You pay 55k a year for “more than 1/4” of the offerings smart public school kids get for free. And just because a class is listed in Sidwell’s catalogue doesn’t mean it gets offered each year. |
Anonymous
Our 21 and 23 grads from an MCPS HS are doing great. The one who graduated in 21, suma cum laude, is now doing similarly well in grad school, and the 23 grad is on their way to graduating with similar stellar grades. One went to a public school and one private, neither to UMD, although one was accepted to the honors college, the other withdrew their application after being accepted ED to their private College |
Anonymous
No, they don’t. Even if they list them, they have never taught them, ever. It's all marketing ploy |