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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone move their kids from MCPS to Howard County or other MD public schools? How does the other school compare to MCPS?  We are not having a good experience in MCPS and would like to leave but not sure if other publics would be much different. For context, our MCPS challenges have been large class size, heavy reliance on Chromebooks for instruction and rewards (kids allowed to play games if they finish assignments but large class means kids are poorly supervised and rush through assignments to spend most of class time playing “educational” games), lackluster activities (mostly worksheets, no long-term projects, “research” assignments involve the kids searching an educational app, our 4th grader’s class did a science project that a neighbor’s 2nd grader’s private school class did), weak administrators, frequents requests for donations (the requests from the classroom, school, and PTA amount to nearly weekly requests for money or supplies, not just the standard classroom supplies but also furniture, subscriptions to even more digital content, supplies for any class assignment that isn’t a worksheet, snacks, and on and on).

I’ve read threads on here with posters fighting about whether MCPS or HCPSS is better. I am not interested in protracted arguments about each system’s statistics, I’d like to hear from people who have actual experience in both districts or those who can speak to the pros/cons of HCPSS. Thanks. [/quote]

Do you mind sharing what cluster you are in? We are wondering the same, but are currently under the (perhaps mistaken) believe that other moco pyramids would be better than our current one (takoma park).[/quote]

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