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[quote=Anonymous]So we're a family with two kids, 5th and 6th graders at Fairfax County Public Schools. We are a family of immigrants, and have decent jobs here in Fairfax, but I now have been offered a job that pays well with a tech company in Mountain View CA. The salary is about $200K which is enough to rent a decent townhome there, but probably not enough to afford private school.

I've lived in the Bay area about 10 years ago and loved it. However we are a family with moderate-conservative values, and our main concern is the bad reputation of California public schools in a deep blue state. We don't mind our kids wearing a mask. But we don't want our kids to walk into the classroom and get mandatory social justice lectures, have the rainbow flag alongside with the American flag in the classroom, being asked about their pronouns and learn divisive concepts like those in the infamous bingo game. And of course we want in-person learning, not unions closing schools "because it's not safe".

We are relatively ok with FCPS here in Virginia despite the controversies around, and California's schools are the only thing that is giving us second thoughts about accepting the job offer. But my sense is that moving into a high-income area like Mountain View or Palo Alto shouldn't be that bad, i.e. it won't be like moving to Los Angeles.

Can someone shed some light on this? Should I take the job and move my family there, or decline and stay with FCPS schools?

Please no political debates, just want to compare FCPS with schools in high-income areas in the Bay Area. Thanks
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