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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. And you will be the difference maker. In an average MCPS school, you'll have to supplement like crazy if the goal is for you kid to leave middle school with a great education.

MCPS is not good at providing high quality instruction in its average schools. Your kid will get C-level academic instruction and experiences, with maybe a bright spot with a teacher/subject or two.[/quote]

How do you know?? I never understand posts like these. You post as if you are an expert and have some sort of inside knowledge. How do you know? Did you have one kids attend Pyle MS and an “average” middle school? They all teach the same curriculum!!! Hello!!!!!![/quote]

1) I have a kid in an "average-to-low performing" MCPS school.

2[b]) I talk with other parents and trades notes and experiences so I learn about what they're getting versus what we're getting[/b]

3) There's a lot of data about the performance and outcomes of every MCPS school. You can look at that data and see how good some schools are at a variety of education metrics versus others[/quote]

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Some of the tests being dumbed down, certain questions removed from tests

The standards as a class lowered so that a majority of the class doesn't do poorly. I mean, of course I should have realized.[/quote]

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